Rauchen und psychiatrische Erkrankungen: Ein Überblick

Smoking and Psychiatric Disorders: An Overview. It is a fact that psychiatric comorbidity is present in /4 –/3 of all nicotine-dependent individuals. Until very recently, this fact was largely neglected both in research as well as in the treatment of nicotine-dependent smokers from the general population and patients primarily referred to treatment because of another psychiatric diagnosis. Since the medical relevance of this particular comorbidity is increasingly acknowledged, we provide a short review of the current knowledge on this topic. J Neurol Neurochir Psychiatr 2013; 14 (3): 119–25.