Cigarette Use Fell From 2006 to 2019 Among Those With Depression, Substance Use Disorder

This study shows us that, at a population-level, reductions in tobacco use are achievable for people with psychiatric conditions, and smoking cessation should be prioritized along with treatments for substance use, depression, and other mental health disorders for people who experience them,” N ora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and co-author of the study, said in anews release. “Therapies to help people stop smoking are safe, effective, and may even enhance the long-term success of concurrent treatments for more severe mental health symptoms in individuals with psychiatric disorders by lowering stress, anxiety, depression, and by improving overall mood and quality of lif e.”Volkow together with lead author Beth Han, M.D., Ph.D., of NIDA and colleagues analyzed data from adults 18 years and older who participated in the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) between 2006 and 2019. As part of the NSDUH, interviewers asked participants about lifetime, past-year, and past-month use of tobacco and alcohol, misuse of prescription opioids, and more. The participants were also asked about any past-year major depressive episode (using DSM-IV criteria) and sociodemographic characteristics (such as age, sex, race and ethnicity, employment status, family income, and more). Han and colleagues specifically focused on data on past-month cigarette use from 558,960 adult participants.Past-month prevalence of cigarette smoking and an...
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