How much does the absence of the ‘hidden population’ from United Kingdom household surveys underestimate smoking prevalence? buff.ly/cCYCYMC Emma Beard @lionshahab.bsky.social @jamiebrown.bsky.social @sharoncox.bsky.social

Reducing smoking in pregnancy in England—a public health success story In recent years rates of smoking in pregnancy in England have declined, from 11.7% of pregnant women in 2014/15, to 5.9% in quarter 3 2024/25, according to the latest smoking at the time of delivery (...

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Change Grow Live - believe in people We are a health and social care charity. We help people achieve their goals.

Newcastle Stop Smoking Service are looking to recruit a full time Stop Smoking Advisor! Closing date 8 May
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Breaking free: Exploring new stop smoking medications for a smoke-free future

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Andrea Crossfield highlights key lessons for wider implementation, and reminds us that both sustained investment and national guidance is required to end smoking for all #SCAH2025

But what next? Inclusion, Improvement & Innovation

Prof Sanjay Agrawal reminding #SCAH2025 of the successes and progress made in the smoking cessation landscape over the last 4 years!

Dr Sophia Papadakis from @ncsct.bsky.social highlighting the 5 principles for maximising the impact of Stop Smoking Services from their updated guidance #SCAH2025

25 years of Stop Smoking Services have saved around 140000 lives! This is why what we do is so important.
Martyn Willmore from Humber North Yorkshire Tobacco Centre of excellence looks back at what we have learnt.
#scah2025

Integrated stop smoking interventions are essential to maximise the health benefits from lung cancer screening In the current issue of Thorax , Williams et al offer timely and much needed evidence regarding the optimal form of smoking cessation intervention in lung cancer screening. In 2022, the UK National Sc...

Integrated stop smoking interventions are essential to maximise the health benefits from lung cancer screening
thorax.bmj.com/content/79/3... @ncsct.bsky.social @btog.bsky.social @atscommunity.bsky.social @ashorg.bsky.social @ashorguk.bsky.social

Tools we need at national, regional & local level:
* Sustained investment
* Clear strategies
* Partnership
* Ambitious & realistic targets

@HazelCheeseman from @AshOrgUK on what we need to do to end smoking #SCAH2025

Looking forward to an amazing conference today on Smoking Cessation #SCAH2025

New update of Cochrane review published concludes there continues to be high-certainty evidence that nicotine vapes have better quit rates than Nicotine Replacement Therapy

Trump 2 .0: A New World Order YouTube video by Jonathan Pie

Jonathon Pie nails it again. The right didn't win - the left lost.

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Great opport to work with a fabulous and exciting team!
Fresh & Balance, the regional Tobacco & Alcohol programmes in the North East are looking to recruit a full-time permanent Business Support Manager, on a NHS contract band 5 (£29,950-£36,483)

Welcome back to SCaH Ailsa Rutter OBE who will deliver a Closing Keynote ‘A Smokefree future-why ending smoking matters’.

Ailsa will be joined by former smoker, Sue Mountain, who will speak from her lived experience of overcoming cancer.

Details here: rb.gy/fhzmjk

Take a look at our December newsletter, featuring:

- info on the 2025 Conference agenda
- Ailsa Rutter on ending smoking
- new resources from NCSCT
- An additional £70m for stop smoking services
- how to showcase your work at SCaH

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#Scah25

New update on Transfer of Care

www.ncsct.co.uk/library/view...

We have released details of our 2025 SCaH conference agenda.

Take a look: smokingcessationandhealth.co.uk/agenda-2025/

Secure your place on 5th March 2025 here: smokingcessationandhealth.co.uk/register/

#SmokingCessation

Home - SCAH 2025 The Smoking Cessation and Health Conference UK (SCaH) is the dedicated national event for professionals working in smoking cessation and related services in the UK. It focuses on how to reduce the bur...

The Smoking Cessation & Health Conference (SCAH) is the only dedicated national event for professionals focusing on how to reduce the burden of smoking related death and disease.
You can now register to attend in York on 5 March 2025

www.smokingcessationandhealth.co.uk

I have got fed up of negativity on X too

On Elon Musk’s repeated attacks on Keir Starmer’s government Sky’s @samcoatessky.bsky.social rightly points out

“If we were talking about a figure close to the Kremlin or the government in Moscow we would be asking the question whether this was foreign interference”

@sophyridge.bsky.social

The NCSCT has a treasure trove of resources about smoking and stopping smoking. Take a look at our website www.ncsct.co.uk and share with your colleagues

Our new training module about financial incentives for stopping smoking during pregnancy is here!

elearning.ncsct.co.uk/financial_in...

Spoke to someone today who’s getting a ‘stop vaping service’ from her local stop smoking service. This is an unwise use of resources allocated to help ppl who smoke to quit.
See the NCSCT guide to stopping vaping and focus on your primary task

www.ncsct.co.uk/library/view...

Link to training for the brand new national pregnancy incentive scheme! Please share with your colleagues in maternity services
elearning.ncsct.co.uk/financial_in...

Insight studies show that people who smoke sometimes don’t use Stop Smoking Services because they don’t want to waste NHS resources. Please tell them we’re there to support them and that everyone we help is SAVING the NHS much more than it costs to help them quit!

We have lost over 8m loved ones to tobacco in the last 50yrs. Smoking is still the single biggest cause of preventable death in England.

Ask your MP to help end the death & disease caused by smoking action.cancerresearchuk.org/page/158114/...
#smokefreegeneration #smokefreeuk