Tobacco use among those with serious psychological distress: results from the national survey of drug use and health, 2002
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There have been relatively few population-based studies that have documented the extent of tobacco use among those with mental health disorders. Recently, the K6 scale, designed to assess serious psychological distress (SPD) at the population level, has been incorporated into a number of population-based health behavior surveys. The present study documented the prevalence of tobacco use products, dependence, and quit behavior among those with and without SPD utilizing the 2002 National Survey of Drug Use and Health. Results from the current study indicated that adults with SPD had greater odds of lifetime, past month, and daily use of cigarettes, cigars and pipes than adults without SPD. Common measures of nicotine dependence (e.g., Nicotine Dependence Syndrome Scale) indicated that a greater percentage of those with SPD were nicotine dependent compared to those without SPD. Lastly, quit ratios differed notably by SPD status. Among those with SPD, 29% quit or were former smokers compared to 49% of those without SPD. Findings highlight the importance of continuing to enhance public health efforts towards smoking cessation among those with mental health disorders, extensive tobacco surveillance and monitoring of tobacco trends among this group, and evaluating the extent to which this group of smokers may contribute to a hardening of the population.
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Data on willingness to quit smoking in people with severe mental illness are inconclusive; both less motivation and similar motivation compared to smokers without mental health problems have been reported.
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Section 3.4 reports that adults with serious psychological distress had a lower quit ratio than adults without it (29% versus 49%). The Discussion addresses difficulty achieving abstinence, but neither passage measures or compares willingness or motivation to quit. Searches for motivation, willingness, desire, and quit attempts found no passage establishing either motivation comparison in the citing sentence. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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- Authors
- Hagman, B. T., Delnevo, C. D., Hrywna, M., & Williams, J. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (US)
- Corresponding author
- Delnevo, Cristine D.
- Venue
- Addictive Behaviors
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-04
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 582-592
- ISSN
- 0306-4603 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2696205
- OpenAlex
- W2069239933
- Cited by
- 121
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Addictive Behaviors (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R03MH077273)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Keywords
- tobacco use, serious psychological distress, mental illness, nicotine dependence, smoking cessation, cigarettes, former smokers, tobacco surveillance, National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Stress, Psychological, Tobacco Use Disorder, United States, Prevalence, Smoking Cessation
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