People living with mental illness die 10-20 years earlier than the general population – smoking is a key contributor to this. QUIT Victoria has been working with three mental health services, including North Western Mental Health (NWMH), to find out what they can do to support people to stop smoking.
Shane Sweeney (NWMH) and Kevin Greg-Rowan (QUIT) presented Tackling Tobacco in Clinical Mental Health Services: What works? to the August 2018 TheMHS conference.
A component of the presentation was a video interview with Fiona Connolly – team leader at the Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit, North Western Mental Health Breaking the link between mental illness and smoking – stories from the Tackling Tobacco in Mental Health Services project.
