y-QUIT: Smoking Prevalence, Engagement, and Effectiveness of an Individualized Smoking Cessation Intervention in Youth With Severe Mental Illness

y-QUIT: Smoking Prevalence, Engagement, and Effectiveness of an Individualized Smoking Cessation Intervention in Youth With Severe Mental Illness

Introduction: Young people with psychosis are six times more likely to be tobacco smokers than their gender- and age-matched peers. Smoking is a major contributor to the 15-year reduced life expectancy among people experiencing severe mental illness (SMI). There is a lack of evidence-supported inter...

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Main Authors: Jackie Curtis, Charry Zhang, Bernadette McGuigan, Esther Pavel-Wood, Rachel Morell, Philip B. Ward, Andrew Watkins, Julia Lappin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
Subjects:
smoking
tobacco
youth
adolescent
psychosis
first episode psychosis
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00683/full

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