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Don't exempt the mentally ill from smoking cessation efforts

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Don't exempt the mentally ill from smoking cessation efforts

Jul 22, 2011
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Widespread beliefs among physicians that people with mental illness are more addicted, or less desirous or capable of quitting smoking, are wrong and perpetuate a deadly problem, argues J.J. Prochaska. You should nag mentally ill folks to quit smoking as you would anyone else, she urges. NEJM 2011;365:196-198. FULL FREE TEXT

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