Abstract

CALHEIROS, Paulo Renato Vitória; OLIVEIRA, Margareth da Silva  and  ANDRETTA, Ilana. Smoking and psychiatric comorbidy. Aletheia [online]. 2006, n.23, pp. 65-74. ISSN 1413-0394.

Tobaccoism and psychiatric comorbities are themes that have been widely studied among the years, and it’s been detected the need of deeper investigation on the subject in order to have stronger scientific results in the field of public health issue. This article will present literature non systematic findings about associations between tobacco use and psychiatric disorders, including the use of nicotine as a reliever for psychological discomfort. Moreover, contributions on clinical interventions for tobacco users with comorbity patients are approached. The results point to an existing relation between almost all psychiatric disorders and tobacco use, however mood disorders, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and psychoactive drug use are the most common ones.

Keywords : Tobaccoism; Use of nicotine and psychiatric comorbities.

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