WELCOME TO SCaH 2025 - HYBRID
The Smoking Cessation & Health Conference (SCaH) is the only dedicated national event for professionals working in smoking cessation and related services in the UK, that focuses on how to reduce the burden of smoking related death and disease for all sections of the population.
We are delighted that SCAH and all of our speakers are able to come back in-person to York on the 5th March 2025. Following the success of the virtual SCAH conference in 2021, and our hybrid conference in 2023 we have planned the conference to be hybrid again, offering an exciting interactive virtual experience for those that are not able to join us in person. This year’s over-arching theme is ‘The End of Smoking: Thinking Big’.
The inaugural Smoking Cessation and Health (SCaH) conference was held in February 2020, as a one day live event in Birmingham. Following COVID restrictions the 2021 conference was held virtually in June 2021. In 2023 we ran our first hybrid conference in Manchester. We were overwhelmed with the response. SCaH 2021 welcomed over 1000 delegates and SCaH 2023 just over 400 delegates. The Programme hosted local and national speakers including Public Health England and NHS England and welcomed stakeholders from across smoking cessation fields.
From commissioners to practitioners and researchers to policy makers, SCaH set out with a mission to provide the practical tools and an opportunity to share experiences that will drive down smoking rates and achieve the Smokefree ambition of a 5% smoking prevalence by 2030.
Smokefree 2030 – are you ready?
In order to accelerate progress towards Smokefree 2030, we need to continue to find the innovative solutions to reach each and every smoker. The emergence of new technologies from digital behavioural support platforms and reduced risk nicotine products, such as e-cigarettes, create new learning opportunities for us and the ability to reach the right people at the right time, with the right tools. This is about prevention at scale and pace to save 500,000 lives over the next decade. We hope you share our ambition and are able to join us for SCaH 2025.
Testimonials from SCaH 2023 - Hybrid
“It was lovely to attend the conference, meet people in person instead on the screen only. Exchange information – brilliant, possibility to make contacts and exchange experience. Food was lovely.“
“Excellent, informative and event, which left me feeling energised and ready for action, it will be in my diary for the future.“
“I found it the most informative, motivating and energising smoking cessation conference that I have been too in a very long time. “
“It really was an exceptional conference, I thoroughly enjoyed it and can’t wait for the next one.“
“It really was an exceptional conference, I thoroughly enjoyed it and can’t wait for the next one.“
SPEAKERS/CHAIRS 2025
Dr Gareth Jones
Consultant Respiratory Medicine, Clinic Lead CURE Liverpool, Clinical Lead Tobacco Control
Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust (LUHFT), CURE Liverpool, Cheshire & Merseyside Cancer Alliance
Dr Sophia Papadakis
Academic and Health Systems Consultant
National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT)
Prof Andrew Furber OBE
Regional Director of Public Health
North West OHID
Martin Dockrell
Formerly Tobacco Control Lead at DHSC and PHE. Retired
Heidi Croucher
Dorset Integrated Care System Treating Tobacco Dependency Programme Manager, Lead Implementation Midwife, NHS England
Public Health Dorset
Amy Watling-Cash
Specialist Wellbeing & Public Health Officer
Essex County Council Wellbeing & Public Health Team
Patricia Rodrigues
Project Coordinator & Smoking Cessation Advisor
Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust (LUHFT)
Richard Boden
Deputy Director Tobacco and Vaping Policy and Legislation
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care
Prof Caitlin Notley
Director – Lifespan Health Research Centre and Professor of Addiction Sciences
Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia
Mary Yates
Clinical Expert, National Tobacco Dependence Trainer
Sue Mountain
Smokefree Campaigner
Florence Aku
Treating Tobacco Dependency Team Lead for Mental Health
Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust
Sarah Hepworth
Health Improvement Principal, Sheffield Tobacco Control Strategy Lead
Sheffield City Council
Martin Lever
Tobacco Health Improvement Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Freelance Consultant Trainer
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
Scott Crosby
Associate Director, Centre for Excellence in Tobacco Control
NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership
Prof Sanjay Agrawal
Consultant in Respiratory & Intensive Care Medicine, National Specialty Adviser for Tobacco NHSE
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- TTD Practitioners as part of the Long Term Plan
- Policymakers
- Scientific / Research / Academic communities
- Primary & secondary care commissioners
- Medical/healthcare practitioners
- Public health professionals
- Stop smoking specialist services
KEY THEMES
- Licensed pharmacotherapy and tools for the job
- Non medicalised alternatives to smoking
- Bridging the gap in health inequalities and Core20PLUS5
- “The Long Term Plan” embedding services post national funding to reach a smokefree 2030
- No artificial division with mental and physical health