Tobacco Cessation Services in Addiction Treatment: What Do Clients Say?
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
Guydish J, Yip D, Le T, Gubner NR, Williams DD, Delucchi KL.
Tobacco Cessation Services in Addiction Treatment: What Do Clients Say?
Psychiatr Serv. 2019 Jan 11:appips201700565. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201700565. [Epub ahead of print]
Specialty addiction programs treat people who are addicted to alcohol, opioids, stimulants, and other drugs. This study identified the proportion of addiction program clients who received tobacco-related services and factors associated with receipt of such services. In 2015 and 2016, clients (N=2,119) in 24 programs were surveyed for receipt of services aligning with three of the five As of tobacco cessation: ask, advise, assist. Multivariate analyses examined factors associated with receipt of each service. Most clients (76%) were asked about smoking. Among smokers (N=1,630), 53% were advised to quit, 41% received counseling, 26% received cessation medication, and 17% received counseling and medication. Clients were more likely to receive tobacco-related services if they wanted help quitting smoking or were enrolled in programs with tobacco-free grounds. These correlational findings suggest that increasing client motivation to quit and implementing tobacco-free policies on the grounds of treatment centers may increase tobacco-related services in addiction treatment.
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