Smoking Cessation in Women With Severe Mental Illness: Exploring the Role of Exercise as an Adjunct Treatment
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Sample and Procedures
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's leading institute for addiction and mental health research and home to the largest mental illness research program in Canada. Over a 1-month period, a convenience sample of 18 female patients diagnosed with SMI and who were seeking smoking cessation treatment from the Nicotine Dependence Clinic at CAMH were consecutively recruited for one individual interview. Approximately 75% of the total clinic users have some concurrent mental
Participant Descriptives
Participant descriptives are shown in Table 2. The mean ± SD age of the participants was 53.67 ± 12.97 years. Most participants were overweight, divorced, unemployed, and Caucasian. Of the 12 women interviewed, three had bipolar disorder, three had schizophrenia, two had anxiety disorders, two had major depression, and two had a combination of anxiety and major depression. Eight women were currently trying to quit smoking, whereas the remaining four women had quit within the past 4 years.
The Role of Exercise Within Smoking Cessation for Women With SMI
In the
Discussion
This study was a qualitative investigation of the role of exercise in smoking cessation for women with SMI enrolled in an established cessation program. Overall, most of the women interviewed (i.e., 9/12) thought that exercise had a positive role in smoking cessation and identified three specific ways that exercise may help smoking cessation attempts, alleviating fears associated with preexisting chronic health conditions, assisting emotion management and distraction, and weight management. We
Acknowledgment
Funding for this study was provided by a Seed Grant from the Canadian Action Network for the Advancement, Dissemination, and Adoption of Practice-Informed Tobacco Treatment (CAN-ADAPTT).
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