MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

Below is a list of presentations, articles, publications and the Partnership Communique. All are related to mental health and tobacco.

Presentations

• Maximizing the Power of Partnerships: Engaging Smokers and the Mental Health Community
• Are the 5 A's Enough?: Tobacco Dependence Treatment for Smokers with Mental Illness
• Mental Health and Smoking
• Increasing Access to Tobacco Cessation Services for People in Mental Health
• How does the mental health system differ
• What Works
• Tobacco Use in Special Populations: Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders
• Setting the Stage : Conducting tobacco treatment with clients with substance abuse disorders

The National Mental Health Partnership for Wellness and Smoking Cessation Communique

• Communique #1, December 2007
• Communique #2, January 2008
• Communique #3, February 2008
• Communique #4, March, 2008
• Communique #5, April, 2008

Mental health and smoking awareness video clip

• Smoke Alarm

Press Release

• Mental Health and Smoking Cessation Press Release

Tool Kit

• Tobacco-free Living in Psychiatric Settings- NASMHPD Toolkit - provides practical tips for converting facilities to smokefree status. To download a complimentary copy please e-mail visit www.nasmhpd.org
• Smoking Cessation for Persons with Mental Health Illness- A Toolkit for Mental Health Providers - offers step by step instructions for providers to help their patients quit smoking. Thank you to the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment's State Tobacco Education and Prevention Program for funding the project and sharing with the SCLC.

Cessation training for MH providers

A new mental health provider cessation training curriculum will be coming soon to the Rx for Change online series. Visit http://rxforchange.ucsf.edu.

Articles and Publications

• Eliminating Tobacco Use in Mental Health Facilities: Patients' rights, Public Health, and Policy Issues
• A Meta-Analysis of Smoking Cessation Interventions With Individuals in Substance Abuse Treatment or Recovery
• Treatment of Tobacco Use in an Inpatient Psychiatric Setting
• Treatment for Cigarette Smoking Among Depressed Mental Health Outpatients: A Randomized Clinical Trial
• Conguencies in Increased Mortality Rates, Years of Potential Life Lost and Causes of Death Among Publich Mental Health Clients in Eight States
• A behavioural and functional neuroimaging investigation
  into the effects of nicotine on sensorimotor gating in healthy subjects and persons with schizophrenia
• Training in Tobacco Treatments in Psychiatry: A National Survey of Psychiatry Residency Training Directors
• TECHNICAL REPORT ON SMOKING POLICY AND TREATMENT IN STATE OPERATED PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES
• The US Public Health Service "treating tobacco use and dependence clinical practice guidelines" as a legal standard of care
• Marketing to the marginalised: tobacco industry targeting of the homeless and mentally ill
• RESULTS OF THE CONVERSION TO A TOBACCO-FREE ENVIRONMENT IN A STATE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL
• Smoking and Mental Illness
• Facts about Smoking and Mental Health Disorders
• Smoking bans in psychiatric inpatient settings? A review of the research
• Return to Smoking Following a Smoke-Free Environment
  

Mental Health and the Tobacco industry

• Legacy Tobacco Library: The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) contains more than 7 million documents (40+ million pages) created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities. The articles and documents below are just a few examples of how the tobacco industry has capitalized on groups they have termed “consumer subcultures” which include homeless, and the mentally ill.
• Project Scum
• Downscale Publications / DP2
• Capital District Psych Center
• Working Party on Social Acceptability of Tobacco Use
• Tobacco industry documents expose R.J. Reynolds marketing plan: Project SCUM
• Homeless Hunger Initiative
• Our Target Is

Other Resources and Facts

• http://www.njchoices.org/
• Clinical practice guidelines as a legal standard of care
• Drug interactions and smoking
• Final report on smoking policy and treatment
• Mental health disorders fact sheet
• Ask Advise Refer Provider Poster
• 1 800 QUIT NOW Patient-Oriented Poster