title: Tertiary-level interventions for hard-core smokers.
abstract: It has become more commonplace to find that today's smokers fit into one of four target populations: (1) persons with a history of cessation failures; (2) persons with a history of other addictive disorders; (3) persons with smoking-related diseases; and (4) persons with a history of psychiatric impairment. This article addresses the need to expand and create a new methodology for smoking cessation to suit these patients. Interventions geared toward a tertiary level of treatment are offered. This article also examines treatment within the context of phase-specific interventions.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ginne
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications