Tobacco and mental health quick facts

CrossCurrents

• 40%-60% of people with major depression smoke.
  
  
• Smokers with depressive symptoms have a much harder time quitting and require more attempts to quit.
  
  
• 61% of people with bipolar disorder smoke, according to one population­based study.
  
  
• 19%-56% of people with panic disorders smoke. Daily smoking predicts the onset of panic attacks.
  
  
• 53%-66% of combat veterans with post­traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) smoke.
  
  
• 44% of women who have PTSD related to physical and sexual assault smoke.
  
  
• 41% of smokers increased smoking after 9/11.
  
  
• People with ADHD smoke more and start earlier.
  
  
• Adolescents with poor body image who engage in disordered weight control behaviour are 4 times likelier to initiate smoking.
  

 

Source: "Co­Morbidity of Smoking in Patients with Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders," American Journal on Addictions, 2005.

 

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