Stage movement following a 5A's intervention in tobacco dependent individuals with serious mental illness (SMI)

► Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) continue to smoke at alarming rates. ► Cessation rates are low and interventions are under-utilized in this population. ► A psychiatrist-delivered, brief intervention can positively impact smokers with SMI. ► SMI smokers move through the process of change in similar ways to other smokers. ► As with non SMI smokers success comes after multiple attempts, relapse, and recycling.