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  • How to quit cannabis when you have a mental illness: study from the perspective of patients who have successfully quit

  • Jojanneke Bruins, Stijn Crutzen, Wim Veling, Stynke Castelein
  • Journal:
    BJPsych Bulletin / Volume 48 / Issue 4 / August 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 September 2023, pp. 234-240
    Print publication:
    August 2024
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  • 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 ≥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.