Promotion of good mental health, prevention, and early intervention before/at the onset of
mental disorders improve outcomes. However, the range and peak ages at onset for mental …

Background Although the association between psychotic illness and cigarette smoking is
well known, the reasons are unclear why people with psychosis are more likely to smoke …

Abstract The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) convened a meeting in September
2005 to review tobacco use and dependence and smoking cessation among those with …

The behavioural and cognitive effects of nicotine in schizophrenia have received much
interest in recent years. The rate of smoking in patients with schizophrenia is estimated to be …

The high prevalence of cigarette smoking and tobacco related morbidity and mortality in
people with chronic mental illness is well documented. This review summarizes results from …

Background: Birth cohort (BC) studies demonstrate that individuals who develop
schizophrenia differ from the general population on a range of developmental indices. The …

Importance There is concern about potentially causal effects of tobacco use on psychosis,
but epidemiological studies have been less robust in attempts to minimize effects of …

Introduction The prevalence of tobacco use in the population with schizophrenia is
enormously high. Moreover, nicotine dependence is found to be associated with symptom …

A common remark among laypeople, and notably also among mental health workers, is that
individuals with mental illnesses use drugs as self-medication to allay clinical symptoms and …

There has been emerging evidence of an association between tobacco smoking and
schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD). Two meta-analyses have reported that people …