Timing of Smoking Intervention in Alcohol Treatment (Nicotine Patch)

Exclusion Criteria

• •Lifetime diagnosis of an excluding psychiatric disorder: bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder, panic disorder with or without agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, eating disorder, post- traumatic stress disorder, antisocial personality disorder, or borderline personality disorder.
• •Unable to participate in protocol due to functional deficits or severe depression.
• •Suicidal or homicidal ideation.
• •Current use of disulfiram (Antabuse) or naltrexone (Revia).
• •Current use of pipes, cigars, or smokeless tobacco and unwillingness to stop.
• •Lives more than 100 miles from alcohol treatment facility.
• •No telephone.