Smoking & Mental Health

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Helping smokers quit in mental health settings Lisa McNally Published by GASP 2006

An invaluable guide for both mental health and stop-smoking services. Lisa McNally, an NHS Health Psychologist and expert in the field, addresses the many challenges facing quit support programmes in mental health settings. She discusses issues encountered by both the individual practitioner working with patients and by the organisation wishing to establish a service strategy. The book explores the association between smoking, quitting and mental health. It then goes on to offer advice specific to mental health settings on challenges such as service strategies, staff training, service promotion, intensive quit support and working within a smoke-free policy. The aim is to provide a framework for delivering effective quit smoking support in this most challenging of settings.

ISBN 0-9546749-2-8