Outcomes Among People With Schizophrenia Participating in General-Population Smoking Cessation Treatment: An Observational Study.
Scott VeldhuizenAnjali BehalLaurie ZawertailoOsnat C MelamedMahavir AgarwalPeter L SelbyPublished in: Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie (2023)
There is abundant demand for tobacco cessation treatment in this population. Outcomes were substantially poorer for people with schizophrenia, and this difference was not explained by covariates. Cessation remained much better than for unaided quit attempts, however, and engagement was high, demonstrating that people with schizophrenia benefit from nonspecialized pharmacological treatment programs.