Project SCeTCH is the first large-scale multi-centre randomised controlled trial comparing an e-cigarette intervention to usual care to address smoking among people experiencing homelessness. This presentation will share findings from this NIHR funded trial involving 32 homeless support centres (477 people who smoked) across Great Britain, and the training of 220 staff to deliver smoking… Read more »
Archives: Seminars
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Making the most of insights and communications to engage and prompt quit attempts
The presentation will consider the importance of smoker insights in informing our communications, and will explore the role this has in helping to reduce our biggest cause of disease and death and make a case for the vision of a Smokefree future.
A national ambition for an integrated stop smoking system
This presentation outlines a comprehensive, system-wide approach to achieve the 2030 Smokefree ambition of less than 5% smoking prevalence. It proposes strategies including campaigns, targeted support for underserved communities, and strengthened connections with primary care. The shared ambition aims to normalise quitting and ensure non-judgmental, evidence-based support is available to all smokers.
What next? Going further and faster with tobacco dependency treatment
Since 2021 ‘opt-out’ tobacco dependency treatment services have been introduced to almost every NHS hospital in-patient setting and maternity service, driving down smoking related health inequality by providing access to treatment. To have a greater impact still we could improve the reach and effectiveness of our services. The opportunity to reach more people may arise… Read more »
Researcher’s update on the evidence base around young people & vaping
The scientific evidence base suggesting that e-cigarettes (vapes) can aid smoking cessation is becoming stronger, but concerns about vaping among youth could be hampering the promotion of vapes for cessation. In this session, we will discuss the current evidence base around young people vaping, delving into the prevalence, problems and potential solutions.
Swap 2 Stop a local perspective from a rural county: seaside to field and everything in between
This session will look at the realities of mobilising the swap to stop offer at pace and at scale. With a particular focus on our self-serve model which saw thousands of people take up the offer within the few first weeks of launch. We’ll also look at the challenges and ways to overcome working across… Read more »
Cut Down to Stop: a new pathway into quitting
In this paper, different approaches to supporting quit attempts are considered. Whilst abrupt quitting is the option offered to most people who smoke, a planned tailored approach, such as Cut Down to Stop, can be an effective way of engaging with clients and can increase the likelihood they might quit and/or re-engage with stop smoking… Read more »
Tobacco Dependence Treatment Skills Training: Targeting people with a trauma history
Commissioned by NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care, Improving Performance in Practice (iPiP) have developed a bespoke workshop to equip tobacco dependence advisors with knowledge and skills to provide evidence-based person-centred tobacco dependence treatment, for people with a trauma history. The link between adverse or traumatic experiences and addiction is well established. Substances are frequently used… Read more »
How Sheffield successfully addressed enablers and barriers to accessing stop smoking services for vulnerable priority groups
This presentation will focus on how Sheffield amended their model and re-commissioned the Smokefree Sheffield Service to ensure it was fit for purpose in 2022 in line with the changing landscape of vapes, harm reduction, the cost-of-living crisis and new NICE guidance (2021). The presentation will cover how we embedded the new approach of Quit,… Read more »
