Jill M Williams

..The unique barriers and clinical issues for this population are described...

..Licensure standards regulation can be an effective mechanism for increasing the quantity and quality of tobacco dependence treatment in residential addictions programs...

..Rapid smoking usually results in dizziness, sore throat, nausea, and other unpleasant feelings...

..Cigarette smoking behavior in bipolar disorder (BPD), including the effects of mood-stabilizing medications, has not been well characterized...

..This protocol describes a study in which we will assess the effectiveness of a healthy lifestyle intervention on smoking and CVD risk and associated health behaviours among people with severe mental disorders...

..Menthol is an important cigarette additive that may help explain why some groups have lower quit rates and more smoking-caused disease...

..Antiepileptic drugs (AED) are being increasingly used in the management of serious mental illness, but their effects on nicotine metabolism have not been studied...

..The increase in blood nicotine after smoking a single cigarette is nicotine boost. We hypothesized that smokers with schizophrenia (SCZ) have a greater nicotine boost than controls without this disorder...

..Findings support that mental health clinicians can be trained to effectively help smokers with SCZ maintain tobacco abstinence...

..Peer-to-peer communication about tobacco use can be effective to increase awareness and change smoking behaviors...

..More research is needed as well as a national organized effort to address tobacco in this large segment of smokers...

..Ten patients (83 percent) used the spray in combination with other medications, and all received psychosocial support. Nicotine nasal spray was found to be well tolerated...

..Trainings are repeated twice a year because of ongoing demand. Further follow-up should evaluate changes in practices after training...

..Our data support the hypothesis that the increased serum nicotine and cotinine levels observed are attributable to an increased nicotine intake per cigarette in smokers with schizophrenia as compared to those without mental illness...

..People with schizophrenia are frequent and heavy smokers...

..This study evaluated abstinence and psychiatric outcomes of various tobacco dependence medications, including varenicline...

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..Clinical effects of smoking and caffeine intake are important and may complicate the interpretation of schizophrenia symptoms and antipsychotic medication side effects, thus warranting further research...

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..Suggestions for additional avenues of inquiry as well as modifications to current cessation treatments are proposed...

..This paper reviews use of caffeine and nicotine in people with schizophrenia and gives recommendations for their further study...

..To identify factors associated with successful quitting at a free tobacco treatment clinic...

..We evaluated the safety and efficacy of varenicline for smoking cessation in outpatients with stable schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder...

..Future studies should evaluate the ability of task persistence to predict abstinence from cigarettes prospectively among smokers with schizophrenia...

..In addition, there is a need for studies designed to evaluate the efficacy of pharmacotherapies in populations such as youth, pregnant smokers and smokers with co-occurring mental health problems...

..Specific examples of problematic items and how these may contribute to an underestimate of tobacco dependence severity are discussed, as well as ways to modify the FTND to be more appropriate for this population...

..These results suggest that efforts to target task persistence in smoking cessation counseling protocols may be warranted...

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..g., frequency of injections required) before they can become widely used and successful therapies. The best hope of improved treatment comes from combining existing and new pharmacotherapies with effective behavioural therapy...