Mental health issues and #smoking tend to go hand in hand due to the self-medicating properties of smoking. We need to create unique programs to help people with mental health challenges kick the #habit as it seems to mean a lot more to us than to the general populace. Have you managed to quit smoking? If so, what did you do? It is well established that smoking rates are much higher in people with mental health problems; this study claims they are approximately 50% higher. ...people with mental health problems have lower life expectancy than the general population, and a lot of this reduced life expectancy is related to diseases caused by smoking. Of course, helping someone improve their mental health condition is hugely important, but when the leading causes of death among people with #schizophrenia are lung cancers, cardiovascular diseases, pulmonary diseases, and other smoking-related #illnesses, the ethicality of such behavior on the part of health professionals becomes more questionable. Whats more, a recent study found that patients with mental health problems who reduced their smoking, or quit, showed improved outcomes in their #mentalhealth.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:17:39 +0000
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