title: Smoking cessation among people seeking mental health treatment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study examined smoking cessation characteristics of smokers who reported seeking mental health treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data for adult current smokers (N=18,939) were combined from the 2000, 2005, and 2010 National Health Interview Survey. Multivariate regressions were used to assess associations between smoking cessation behaviors, cessation-related social norms, and mental health treatment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Smokers (N=1,897) who reported seeing mental health professionals for mental health problems had higher odds of having made attempts to quit in the past year (odds ratio [OR]=1.17), of having used nicotine replacement therapy (OR=1.28), and of using face-to-face counseling (OR=2.40), telephone quit lines (OR=1.81), and support groups (OR=1.63) to assist smoking cessation. They were more likely to have been advised by health professionals to quit smoking (OR=1.62) but less likely to live in a smoke-free home (OR=.78). Use of smoking cessation treatments and prevalence of smoke-free homes increased over the sampling period.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings highlight the need for tailored efforts to reduce tobacco use among people with mental health problems.
authors.affiliation: Dr. Shi is with the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego (e-mail: yus001@ucsd.edu).
authors.forename: Yuyan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology