Summary
mental illness
We aimed to understand the experience of an integrated smoking cessation and mental health treatment among people with common mental illness. We found that generally, people with mental illness accepted integrated smoking cessation and mental health treatment, and had the psychological capability, motivation, physical and social opportunity to accept and engage with the integrated treatment. However, participants also faced several barriers in understanding tobacco withdrawal and at the service level. Participants described how PWPs had the interpersonal skills for delivering the smoking cessation intervention, but it sometimes seemed scripted or unnatural.