How to quit cannabis when you have a mental illness: study from the perspective of patients who have successfully quit
Aims and method Research regarding quitting cannabis use often excludes patients with severe mental illness (SMI). We investigated facilitating and impeding factors in SMI patients and their advice to others, using semi-structured interviews with 12 SMI-patients, who were daily cannabis users for ≥1...
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Research regarding quitting cannabis use often excludes patients with severe mental illness (SMI). We investigated facilitating and impeding factors in SMI patients and their advice to others, using semi-structured interviews with 12 SMI-patients, who were daily cannabis users for ≥12 months and had fully stopped using for ≥6 months.
Results
Seeking distraction, social contacts in personal environment, avoiding temptation and support from professionals were facilitating factors in stopping. Impeding factors were withdrawal symptoms, user environment, experiencing stress and user's routine. Advice to other patients included to just do it, seek support from others, quit ‘cold turkey’ and acknowledge that cannabis use is a problem. Advice to mental health professionals is to discuss cannabis use from the start of treatment.
Clinical implications
It is important to inform patients that cannabis use has negative consequences and limits the effects of treatment. Do not judge cannabis use or force the patient to stop.
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| spelling | doaj.art-b1ad0064984f4fccaa176e71461535ec2023-10-17T12:42:21ZengCambridge University PressBJPsych Bulletin2056-46942056-47081710.1192/bjb.2023.69How to quit cannabis when you have a mental illness: study from the perspective of patients who have successfully quitJojanneke Bruins0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5345-0748Stijn Crutzen1Wim Veling2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1364-9779Stynke Castelein3Lentis Psychiatric Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands University of Groningen, Groningen, The NetherlandsLentis Psychiatric Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands University of Groningen, Groningen, The NetherlandsUniversity of Groningen, Groningen, The NetherlandsLentis Psychiatric Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands University of Groningen, Groningen, The NetherlandsAims and method Research regarding quitting cannabis use often excludes patients with severe mental illness (SMI). We investigated facilitating and impeding factors in SMI patients and their advice to others, using semi-structured interviews with 12 SMI-patients, who were daily cannabis users for ≥12 months and had fully stopped using for ≥6 months. Results Seeking distraction, social contacts in personal environment, avoiding temptation and support from professionals were facilitating factors in stopping. Impeding factors were withdrawal symptoms, user environment, experiencing stress and user's routine. Advice to other patients included to just do it, seek support from others, quit ‘cold turkey’ and acknowledge that cannabis use is a problem. Advice to mental health professionals is to discuss cannabis use from the start of treatment. Clinical implications It is important to inform patients that cannabis use has negative consequences and limits the effects of treatment. Do not judge cannabis use or force the patient to stop. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056469423000694/type/journal_articleComorbiditysubstance use disordersqualitative researchsevere mental illnessmarijuana |
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| title | How to quit cannabis when you have a mental illness: study from the perspective of patients who have successfully quit |
| title_full | How to quit cannabis when you have a mental illness: study from the perspective of patients who have successfully quit |
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| title_short | How to quit cannabis when you have a mental illness: study from the perspective of patients who have successfully quit |
| title_sort | how to quit cannabis when you have a mental illness study from the perspective of patients who have successfully quit |
| topic | Comorbidity substance use disorders qualitative research severe mental illness marijuana |
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