Mental illness and Tobacco Use

Smoking is much more common in adults with mental illness than other adults

Smoking and mental illness

• Nicotine has mood-altering effects that put people with mental illness at higher risk for cigarette use and nicotine addiction.
• People with mental illness are more likely to have stressful living conditions, be low income, and lack access to health insurance, health care, and help quitting. All of these factors make it more challenging to quit.
• Evidence shows that there has been direct tobacco marketing to people with mental illness and other vulnerable groups of people.

Smokers who quit have immediate health benefits.

• Risk for a heart attack drops sharply just 1 year after quitting.
• After 2 to 5 years, the chance of stroke can fall to about the same as a nonsmoker's.
• Within 5 years of quitting, the chance of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, and bladder is cut in half.
• Ten years after quitting smoking, the risk for dying from lung cancer drops by half.

Adults with mental illness who smoke want to and are able to quit.

• Like other smokers, smokers with mental illness are interested in quitting, are able to quit, and have a better chance of quitting successfully when they have access to proven stop-smoking treatments.
• With careful monitoring, quitting smoking does not interfere with treatments for mental illness and can be part of the treatment.
• People with mental illness face challenges in quitting smoking and may benefit from extra help to succeed in quitting. This can include more counseling as well as longer use or a combination of stop-smoking medicines.

More attention is needed to help people with mental illness quit smoking.

• Some mental health facilities still allow smoking.
• Some mental health facilities allow smoking as a reward for progress.
• Some mental health facilities now provide counseling and medicine to help smokers quit.

World No Tobacco Day May 31, 2013

World No Tobacco Day  31 May 2013

Every year, on 31 May, WHO and partners everywhere mark World No Tobacco Day, highlighting the health risks associated with tobacco use and advocating for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption. ...Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death globally and is currently responsible for killing one in 10 adults worldwide.

The theme for World No Tobacco Day 2013 is: ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship.

"Bridging the Gap between Health and Mental Health for Persons with Serious Mental Health Conditions"

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A Special Webinar:  June 19, 2013  3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

"Bridging the Gap between Health and Mental Health for Persons with Serious Mental Health Conditions"

Improving the quality of life through the integration of health and mental health is one of the key goals of U.S. federal initiatives including the Affordable Health Care Act, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Integrated Health Solutions and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.

 In this webinar, presenters will be considering the systems, services and individual perspectives on the need and the opportunities to bridge the divide between health and mental health. The webinar will begin with an overview of research on health/mental health integration.  Following this, a person with lived experience who has been a student in the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation's Recovery Services, will tell her story about how the absence of integration and collaboration led to serious problems.  Finally, presenters will describe the program at Boston University and how it was replicated and adapted in Arizona with approval and funding by Medicaid.  Presenters from Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation include:

 

Marianne Farkas, Sc.D., Director of Training and Technical Assistance

Dori Hutchinson, Sc.D., Director of Recovery Services and

Gloria Dickerson, Recovery Services Alumnae

 For information see:

http://cpr.bu.edu/develop/webinar/bridging-the-gap

 

Provider Workshop on Peer Support Techniques and Tobacco Cessation May 29, 2013

Inuksuk: Building a Peer-Made Path for Recovery Workshop May 29, 2013

This is a day for peers to learn from each other about empowerment and wellness strategies. A second workshiop day for non-peer staff is available on Thurs. May 29, 2013.

Topics include:

Peer Support Facilitated by Glenn Hopkins, PS.  What is peer support? How can we use it to enhance recovery?

Tobacco Myths Facilitated by Kristen Frame, TTS, PS. Learn about the unique needs of individuals who experience mental illness and tobacco cessation.

MOST Program Facilitated by Asa GreenRiver. Learn how young men build individualized definitions of masculinity that promote healthy relationships.

“Getting Ahead” Peer PanelFacilitated by Donna Gibson, Program coordinator. Learn how peers in this program build resources and choices to move forward.

A delicious lunch is included in registration fee.Options for the day include: a chance to tour the Arboretum, and a post-conference walk around the park trails.

Location: Dawes Arboretum , 7700 Jacksontown Road, Newark, OH 43056www.Dawesarb.org Dawes Arboretum offers a beautiful Japanese garden, a cypress swamp, woodlands and a discovery center.

This training was made possible by a grant from a collaboration between Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) and Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change (IGLC) (formerly Medical Education Group/ MEG) to MHALC’s Compeer Program.

Deadline for registration: May 22, 2013. Registration cost is $25, and includes lunch and materials. Ask about the limited number of scholarships available to consumers. Call 740-52-1341 for more information.

To register online: go to www.mhalc.org, to complete registration and pay with PayPal.

By Fax: the attached registration to 740-522-4664 and pay with credit card.

Inuksuk: Building a Peer-Made Path for Recovery Workshop May 30, 2013

Inuksuk: Building a Peer-Made Path for Recovery Workshop May 30, 2013

This is a day for peers to learn from each other about empowerment and wellness strategies. A second workshiop day for non-peer staff is available on Thurs. May 29, 2013.

Topics include:

PTSD Facilitated by Rhonda Hunt, PS.  Recognition, symptoms and ways to make lives easier living with PTSD.

Tobacco Myths  Facilitated by Kristen Frame, TTS, PS. Learn about the unique needs of individuals who experience mental illness and tobacco cessation.

 

 “Getting Ahead” Peer Panel Facilitated by Donna Gibson, Program coordinator. Learn how peers in this program build resources and choices to move forward.
 

Inuksuk: Building a Path to Peer Wellness and Recovery

Participants will have the opportunity to create their own Inuksuk, in an interactive discussion and art project.

 

A delicious lunch is included in registration fee.Options for the day include: a chance to tour the Arboretum, and a post-conference walk around the park trails.

 Location: Dawes Arboretum , 7700 Jacksontown Road, Newark, OH 43056www.Dawesarb.org  Dawes Arboretum offers a beautiful Japanese garden, a cypress  swamp, woodlands and a discovery center.

This training was made possible by a grant from a collaboration between Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) and  Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change (IGLC) (formerly Medical Education Group/ MEG) to MHALC’s Compeer Program.

Deadline for registration: May 22, 2013. Registration cost is $25, and includes lunch and materials. Ask about the limited number of scholarships available to consumers. Call  740-52-1341 for more information.

To register online: go to www.mhalc.org, to complete registration and pay with PayPal. 

By Fax: the attached registration to 740-522-4664 and pay with credit card.

 

 

 

 

A word from MAD Men

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LUlO5-MKNg
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The 2012 Tobacco Cessation National Dissemination Project Final Report

This report details the American Academy of Family Physicians’ 2012 Tobacco Cessation National Dissemination Project which assisted 50 family medicine practices across the country in making system changes to integrate tobacco cessation activities into their daily office routines.

http://www.aafp.org/online/etc/medialib/aafp_org/documents/clinical/pub_health/askact/officechampfinalreport.Par.0001.File.dat/office-champions-final-report.pdf
Reposted at http://www.tobaccodeathray.blogspot.com,