Stop Smoking Service Pilot for people with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) + Market Test Form

Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of premature mortality and ill health with the biggest inequality impact amongst people with severe mental illnesses (SMI). Smokers with SMI are more nicotine dependent, more likely to develop smoking-related illnesses and die, on average, 10 - 20 years earlier than the general population. Smoking has been identified as the single largest cause of the life expectancy gap within this group with estimates of 50% of deaths in people with SMI attributable to smoking (Callag...