Impact of smoking Behavior on cognitive functioning in persons at risk for psychosis and healthy controls: A longitudinal study.
Heleen S van der HeijdenFrederike SchirmbeckMatthew J KemptonMark van der GaagKelly AllotBarnaby NelsonStephan RuhrmannLieuwe de HaanJentien M Vermeulennull nullPublished in: European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists (2021)
No associations were found between smoking and cognitive impairment in UHR nor in controls. However, the fact that one in every two UHR individuals report daily use of tobacco is alarming. Our data suggest that UHR have fewer cognitive impairments and higher smoking cessation rates compared to patients with first-episode psychosis found in literature. Implications to promote smoking cessation in the UHR stage need further investigation.