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The prevalence of cigarette smoking among substance abusers is high,
and substance abusers who smoke have more health problems, higher death
rates, and more severe drug and alcohol addiction than those who don't.
In the past decade, studies have demonstrated that smoking cessation
programs and smoke-free policies can be successful in drug and alcohol
rehabilitation clinics. Patients stay in treatment longer, they stop
smoking for a time, and they do not use more drugs or alcohol than other
patients. This study looks at how feasible it is to incorporate a state-of-the-art
smoking cessation treatment program into community substance abuse treatment
programs and to see if adding such a program will help people quit smoking
and stay off of drugs and alcohol better than substance abuse treatment
alone. The treatment for quitting smoking consists of group counseling
in combination with the nicotine skin patch (NicoDerm CQ).
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