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Published on: August 6, 2013
The relationship between psychopathology and smoking cessation treatment response
P Gariti1, A I Alterman, F D Mulvaney
1Department of Psychiatry, Treatment Research Center, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3900 Chesternut St., Philadelphia, 19104, USA.
Abstract:
The study evaluated the relationship of psychopathology to treatment response of 208 smokers prescribed transdermal nicotine (8 weeks). Participants were relatively high functioning (DSM-IV axis V score) outpatients in a university-based clinic. The primary study objective was to determine whether patients with a history of either a DSM-IV axis I or II diagnosis would have poorer during treatment response (patch adherence, smoking) and lower rates of smoking cessation at post-patch follow-up (study weeks 9, 26, 52) than those without a diagnosis. While there was some indication that patients with a history of psychopathology wore the patch less frequently, psychopathology was not associated with during- and post-treatment smoking.
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