Don't exempt the mentally ill from smoking cessation efforts
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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.
Don't exempt the mentally ill from smoking cessation efforts
Don't exempt the mentally ill from smoking…
Don't exempt the mentally ill from smoking cessation efforts
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.