ArticleBJPsych advances2021
Addressing concerns about smoking cessation and mental health: theoretical review and practical guide for healthcare professionals.
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- What if I fail? Unsuccessful smoking cessation attempts and symptoms of depression and anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2025Pooled it
- Barriers, facilitators, and other factors associated with health behaviors in childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivors: A systematic review.Cancer medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Using Mendelian randomization analysis to better understand the relationship between mental health and substance use: a systematic review.Psychological medicine · 2021Pooled it
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- intEgrating Smoking Cessation treatment As part of usual Psychological care for dEpression and anxiety (ESCAPE): A randomised and controlled, multi-centre, acceptability and feasibility trial with nested qualitative methods.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Trial
- Smoking Cessation and Changes in Anxiety and Depression in Adults With and Without Psychiatric Disorders.JAMA network open · 2023Trial
- Service-user experiences of an integrated psychological intervention for depression or anxiety and tobacco smoking in improving access to psychological therapies services: A qualitative investigation into mechanisms of change in quitting smoking.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023Trial
- Acceptability of integrating smoking cessation treatment into routine care for people with mental illness: A qualitative study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023Trial
- Stop calling it self-medication: Tobacco smoking is not medicine.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Value Based Purchasing to Increase Tobacco Cessation Counseling and Medications in Behavioral Health Homes.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- Unmasking the appeal: voices of young adults prior to World No Tobacco Day at Qatar University.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The relationship between nicotine craving and state anxiety in daily and non-daily nicotine users.Addictive behaviors · 2026Article
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- Experiences of Tobacco Smoking and Quitting Among Mental Health Consumers.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Short-Term Tobacco Abstinence: Effects on Emotional Balance and Psychological Alienation.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Examining pathways between family or peer factors and smoking cessation in a nationally representative US sample of adults with mental health conditions who smoke: a structural equation analysis.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Commentary on Whitsel et al.: Smoking, alcohol use and the brain- the challenge of answering causal questions.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Article
- Social and therapeutic decline earlier than physical and psychological domains after discharge in heart failure patients: A patient-reported outcome measurements of latent transition analysis.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Article
- Differential trajectories of tobacco smoking in people at ultra-high risk for psychosis: Associations with clinical outcomes.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Views about integrating smoking cessation treatment within psychological services for patients with common mental illness: A multi-perspective qualitative study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021Article
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Abstract
Smoking rates in people with depression and anxiety are twice as high as in the general population, even though people with depression and anxiety are motivated to stop smoking. Most healthcare professionals are aware that stopping smoking is one of the greatest changes that people can make to improve their health. However, smoking cessation can be a difficult topic to raise. Evidence suggests that smoking may cause some mental health problems, and that the tobacco withdrawal cycle partly contributes to worse mental health. By stopping smoking, a person's mental health may improve, and the size of this improvement might be equal to taking anti-depressants. In this theoretical review and practical guide we outline ways in which healthcare professionals can raise the topic of smoking compassionately and respectfully to encourage smoking cessation. We draw on evidence-based methods like cognitive behavioural therapy, and outline approaches that healthcare professionals can use to integrate these methods into routine care.
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