Louise Ross retired in 2018 as the manager of the Leicester, England, Stop Smoking Service, but continues to be active in tobacco harm reduction. The Leicester stop smoking service was the first in the country to go ‘ecig-friendly’ on No Smoking Day 2014. She now works as Business Development Manager for the Smoke-Free app Smoke… Read more »
Martin was formerly the Tobacco Lead for Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. Martin has worked in Public Health since the mid 1980’s when he was involved in HIV prevention work.
Katherine Sawyer is a research assistant working with Dr Gemma Taylor on a randomised and controlled feasibility and pilot study of a smoking cessation intervention for people with depression/anxiety in mental health settings (Improving Access to Psychological Services (IAPT)). Katherine will soon be starting an MRC funded PhD examining the impact of single and combined-use… Read more »
Chris Pitt has over 15 years working in Smoking Cessation; as a community advisor, service co-ordinator and leading Dorset HealthCare on the journey to becoming Smokefree with a focus on reducing smoking in patients with mental ill health. As passionate as ever about helping people to stop smoking and ending the enormous harm caused to… Read more »
