Friends who are former smokers is key to helping people with serious mental illness quit

(The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice) An estimated 53 percent of adults with serious mental illness (SMI) smoke, whereas, only 18 percent of adults in the general population smoke. While studies have shown that most smokers with SMI want to quit, they are less likely to do so. To better understand why quit rates were so low among this group, researchers from Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School explored how social networks influenced smoking outcomes among people with SMI.

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