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Delivering telephone-based health promotion to patients with mental health disorders can be challenging
  1. Holly Blake1,2
  1. 1School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  2. 2NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham, UK
  1. Correspondence to Professor Holly Blake, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2HA, UK; holly.blake{at}nottingham.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2024-104035

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    Commentary on: Rosa N, Feliu A, Ballbè M, et al. Quitline nurses’ experiences in providing telephone-based smoking cessation help to mental health patients: A mixed methods study. J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.13012.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Training nurses and other health professionals to provide evidence-based smoking cessation interventions to individuals with mental health conditions can increase their knowledge and motivation to help these patients quit smoking.

    • However, delivering smoking cessation to individuals with mental health conditions by telephone presents unique challenges, particularly for non-mental health specialised professionals.

    Context

    Quitlines can help people to quit smoking, including people with mental health conditions—a population in which smoking prevalence is high.1 Training is needed to equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills to provide smoking …

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.