Australian mental health care practitioners’ practices and attitudes for encouraging smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction in smokers with severe mental illness

Reducing the burden of physical illness among people living with severe mental illnesses ( SMI ) is a key priority. Smoking is strongly associated with SMI s resulting in excessive smoking related morbidity and mortality in smokers with SMI . Smoking cessation advice and assistance from mental health practitioners would assist with reducing smoking and smoking‐related harms in this group. This study examined the attitudes and practices of...