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.