If you have already registered for SCAH 23 and are looking for the Joining Instructions, please click on the button below to download the details.  These details include both Virtual and In-Person information.

The Smoking Cessation & Health Conference UK (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 Manchester on the 14th September 2023.  Following the success of the virtual SCAH conference in2021, we have planned the conference to be hybrid and offer an exciting interactive virtual experience for those that are not able to join us. This year’s over-arching theme is ‘The Sustainability of Treating Tobacco Dependency ’.

The inaugural Smoking Cessation and Health (SCaH) conference was held in February 2020, as a one day live event in Birmingham and following COVID restrictions the 2021 conference was held virtually in June 2021.  We were overwhelmed with the response.  SCaH 2021 welcomed over 1000 delegates and 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.

Approximately £29.7 million is filtering down to your local transformations budgets across England to help us reach priority groups.  Treating tobacco dependence whether for in-patients (including mental health) or with separate pathways for pregnant smokers and their partners.  We now have a unique opportunity to plan, deliver and embed our services. However the Long Term Plan funding is not secure past 2024, so are you talking with your local Integrated Care Boards to ingrain your services?

Smokefree 2030 – are you ready?

In order to accelerate progress towards Smokefree 2030, we need to make up for lost time during the pandemic and 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 2023

As we continue to develop the programme for Smoking Cessation and Health 2023 we  welcome Abstract applications.  Please use the button below.