- Title
- Readiness to quit smoking and quit attempts among Australian mental health inpatients
- Creator
- Stockings, Emily; Bowman, Jenny; Wiggers, John; McElwaine, Kathleen; Baker, Amanda; Terry, Margarett; Clancy, Richard; Bartlem, Kate; Wye, Paula; Bridge, Paula; Knight, Jenny
- Relation
- Nicotine and Tobacco Research Vol. 15, Issue 5, p. 942-949
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ntr/nts206
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Introduction: Mental health inpatients smoke at higher rates than general population smokers. However, provision of nicotine-dependence treatment in inpatient settings is low, with barriers to the provision of such care including staff views that patients do not want to quit. This paper reports the findings of a survey of mental health inpatients at a psychiatric hospital in New South Wales, Australia, assessing smoking and quitting motivations and behaviors. Methods: Smokers (n = 97) were surveyed within the inpatient setting using a structured survey tool, incorporating the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence, Reasons for Quitting Scale, Readiness and Motivation to Quit Smoking Questionnaire, and other measures of smoking and quitting behavior. Results: Approximately 47% of smokers reported having made at least one quit attempt within the past 12 months, despite nearly three quarters (71.2%) being classified as in a “precontemplative” stage of change. Multinomial logistic regressions revealed that self-reporting “not enjoying being a smoker” and having made a quit attempt in the last 12 months predicted having advanced beyond a precontemplative stage of change. A high self-reported desire to quit predicted a quit attempt having been made in the last 12 months. Conclusions: The majority of smokers had made several quit attempts, with a large percentage occurring recently, suggesting that the actual quitting behavior should be considered as an important indication of the “desire to quit.” This paper provides further data supporting the assertion that multimodal smoking cessation interventions combining psychosocial and pharmacological support should be provided to psychiatric inpatients who smoke.
- Subject
- smoking cessation; australia; mental illness; inpatients
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1040855
- Identifier
- uon:13833
- Identifier
- ISSN:1462-2203
- Rights
- © The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. All rights reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
- Language
- eng
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