Patwardhan Pooja, Driscoll Richard
Centre for Health Research and Education, UK.
Visiting Consultant, Bristol Priory Hospital, UK and Centre for Health Research and Education, UK.
Ecancermedicalscience. 2020 Jun 4;14:ed102. doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2020.ed102. eCollection 2020.
Cigarette smoking is one of the main preventable causes of cancers globally. At this time of global emergency, mental health professionals all over the world are joining hands with the public health and other healthcare communities to focus on acute measures to save lives from COVID-19. This has been particularly challenging in mental health hospital settings where numerous additional factors need to be considered, including difficulties of implementing social distancing, potential impacts of social isolation, increased stress levels and implications of all this on smoking. In this article, we will briefly discuss the prevalence of smoking in mental health patients, especially in those in mental health hospital settings and also what is the possible impact of COVID-19 pandemic in these people. Then we will go through the main reasons as to why encouraging smoking cessation in mental health patients is so important and measures we can take for supporting mental health patients quit smoking even during COVID-19 times. The smoking cessation interventions have a direct bearing on preventing future cancers and achieving smoking cessation among cancer patients in this already disadvantaged group.
吸烟是全球主要的可预防癌症病因之一。在当前全球紧急状况下，世界各地的心理健康专业人员正与公共卫生及其他医疗保健群体携手合作，专注于采取紧急措施以从新冠疫情中拯救生命。这在心理健康医院环境中尤其具有挑战性，因为需要考虑众多额外因素，包括实施社交距离的困难、社会隔离的潜在影响、压力水平的增加以及所有这些对吸烟的影响。在本文中，我们将简要讨论心理健康患者中的吸烟流行情况，特别是在心理健康医院环境中的患者，以及新冠疫情对这些人群可能产生的影响。然后我们将探讨鼓励心理健康患者戒烟为何如此重要的主要原因，以及即使在新冠疫情期间我们可以采取哪些措施来支持心理健康患者戒烟。戒烟干预措施对于预防未来癌症以及在这个本就处于不利地位的群体中的癌症患者实现戒烟具有直接影响。
