Tobacco use can, for example, influence the impact of medication taken for psychiatric syndromes. You have to take higher doses, and that may mean more side effects. The researchers also question the presumption that mental illness causes smoking. Recent studies show that smoking may precede mental illness. One bright spot was a surprising finding about quit rates, which Lasser and her five coauthors expected to be lower among the mentally ill.
Caregivers see that cigarettes are one thing that makes people who are so ill feel better.
They are not looking at the big picture. Research New England Books Etc.