16th June 2021 PM Seminars

Tobacco is not just a threat to human health but also a major threat to sustainable global development.  This presentation summarises the key environmental impacts of the tobacco industry - from the cultivation of tobacco plants to the manufacture, sale and disposal of butts and boxes. Quitting really helps to reduce this damage but there are other policies and action that will help.

Smoking is tied up with family, friendship groups and local belonging. How should cessation services be organised to acknowledge and address this? I will talk about residential segregation, ‘smoking islands’ and intergenerational smoking.

Chosen delegates will showcase their work and share their learning with peers by presenting no more than 4 slides within a 5 minute time slot. The 5 minute timer count down will start after the speaker/s have been introduced. SCaH delegates will vote for their favourite presentation and a £100 prize will be given for the best ‘Rapid Fire’ oral.

Rapid Fire 1: Smoking, distress and COVID-19 in England: cross-sectional population surveys from 2016 to 2020 by Loren Kock, UCL

Rapid Fire 2: Increased exposure to tobacco smoke for children during the COVID-19 era by Mira Osinibi, Kings College Hospital

Rapid Fire 3: Stop smoking courses at St Vincent's University Hospital Ireland – The experience of the move online by Ailsa Lyons & Grainne Ni Eidhin, St Vincent's University Hospital

Rapid Fire 4: Transition of specialist tobacco dependence services to remote delivery in secure mental health services by Katerina Manginas & Raminta Pinarello, West London NHS

This session will address:

• Why some people have found it hard to stop smoking during Covid-19
• What to say about pharmacotherapy treatment to encourage adherence to the programme
• Supporting people who stop using pharmacotherapy treatments too soon then relapse
• How to increase a clients’ commitment to becoming smoke free
• Encouraging patients to develop alternative coping strategies to tobacco use
• Ways to encourage uptake of follow-up appointments
• How to prevent relapse by helping clients take more control of their options.

Smoking is tied up with family, friendship groups and local belonging. How should cessation services be organised to acknowledge and address this? I will talk about residential segregation, ‘smoking islands’ and intergenerational smoking.

Louise describes the use of digital technology to enhance what the Stop Smoking Services offer, and looks at the added value a vape-friendly app can bring, especially when face to face services are disrupted.

Blooming Bumps shifts the emphasis away from core stop cessation support mechanisms already in place nationally. We will be taking you on a journey of insight, connection and elevation - showing you how this project developed to cater to the fundamental, yet unmet needs of pregnant smokers.

Adults experiencing homelessness present with complex needs which may act as a barrier to offering smoking cessation support, but our work shows we can help and help is well accepted.

Raf will start with a short video on his journey to give some context and narrative around experts by experience followed by his presentation on the smoke aware initiative at Cygnet which is being replicated across the sector.

Kate will presenting on the early learning and the challenges of being an EIS; trying to match a nationally prescribed model in a locally complex geography working across three hospitals, two Trusts and three local authorities in an emerging ICS in the South West. Kate is the first and only Project Manager for the maternity EIS to come into post and therefore very well placed to present on the very early learning for the next tranche of systems to come online.

Supporting smokefree pregnancy pathways using e-cigarettes as a first line treatment option. An insight into the the early work with BNSSG.