Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10461557 Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2012 14 Pages PDF
Abstract

- Smoking in patients with psychiatric disease is more common than in the general population.
- Neurobiological links to smoking seem strongest in smokers with depression and schizophrenia.
- There is a complex relationship between mental illness and nicotine dependence and withdrawal.
- Nicotine dependence is undertreated among smokers with psychiatric disease.
- Flexible, individualized smoking cessation programs may be successful in this patient population.
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