Abstract

Methods The study takes place in an inpatient psychiatric unit where free, voluntary and compulsory patients mostly with DSM IVR schizophrenia and mood disorders are hospitalized. Patients facing compulsory treatment arrive in acute or very acute state, often by force, and they need a tailored smoking cessation program, combining nicotine transdermal patches, gums, but also motivational intervention, psychoeducation, diet counselling and physical exercises.

Highlights

  • Patients with a psychotic disorder have consistently been shown to have very high rates of smoking and they have between 2 and 4 times the rates of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases of the general population

  • Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review Thomas W Kallert, John Monahan, Juan E Mezzich Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-224X-7-S1-info.pdf

  • Patients with psychotic or mood disorders have a high rate of cigarette smoking

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Address: Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, 1, rue Cabanis, 75014 Paris, France * Corresponding author from WPA Thematic Conference. Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review Dresden, Germany. Published: 19 December 2007 BMC Psychiatry 2007, 7(Suppl 1):P1 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-7-S1-P1. World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Thematic Conference. Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review Thomas W Kallert, John Monahan, Juan E Mezzich Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-224X-7-S1-info.pdf

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