Swithenbank, Z, Harrison, R and Porcellato, LA (2022) Service user perceptions of smoking cessation in residential substance use treatment. PloS one, 17 (6). ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

Introduction: Prevalence of tobacco smoking among adults in substance misuse treatment is much higher than the wider population, yet limited research is available, and residential treatment services have been overlooked as a potential setting for cessation interventions. Exploring the perceptions of service users about smoking cessation in residential rehabilitation is important to gain better understanding of this issue and identify ways to inform future intervention development.
Methods: Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted in the Northwest of England in 2017 with adults (7 male, 3 female) who were currently or had previously been in residential treatment for substance misuse. Five participants were current smokers, three had never smoked, and two were former smokers. Participants were asked about their smoking behaviours, factors relating to smoking and smoking cessation and the relationship between smoking and substance use. All interviews were transcribed and data was analysed thematically.
Results: Study findings highlighted a general consensus amongst participants that residential treatment services offered an ideal opportunity for cessation but there were concerns that doing so might jeopardise recovery. Smoking in substance use treatment services is still the norm and factors such as perceived social and psychological benefits, normative behaviours and lack of perceived risk or prioritisation pose challenges for implementing smoking cessation within this setting, although facilitators such as motivation to change and appropriateness of the setting were also identified.
Conclusions: This study suggests that service users perceive residential treatment services as suitable environments to introduce smoking cessation. To address the needs of adults who smoke and are in recovery from substance use, further research and cooperation from treatment organisations is needed to integrate substance misuse and smoking cessation services. More conclusive evidence on the effectiveness of tackling both issues at the same time is also required.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Humans; Substance-Related Disorders; Health Behavior; Smoking Cessation; Motivation; Residential Treatment; Adult; Female; Male; Adult; Female; Health Behavior; Humans; Male; Motivation; Residential Treatment; Smoking Cessation; Substance-Related Disorders; General Science & Technology
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions:	Public Health Institute
Publisher:	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	29 Jun 2022 11:09
Last Modified:	29 Jun 2022 11:15
DOI or ID number:	10.1371/journal.pone.0270045
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/17179

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