Smoking and Mental Health

📖 The Scoop

This report draws on substantial evidence to highlight the plight of smokers with mental disorders, and reveals that only a minority of people from this group receive effective smoking cessation interventions by the NHS. This causes major reduction in their life expectancy and quality of life, exacerbates poverty and presents huge economic costs to the NHS and wider society. The report covers the incidence of smoking in people with mental health disorders; cessation interventions; smoking in special circumstances such as forensic psychiatric services, secure units and prisons; costs to the NHS; and the ethical and legal aspects of smoking in people with mental health disorders. The report recommends that health professionals and commissioners should require mental-health-service settings to be smoke free, prioritise providing at least the same level of support for cessation, abstinence and harm reduction for people with mental disorders as for the general population, and put an end to the perpetuation of smoking in this group.

Genre: Medical / Physiology (fancy, right?)