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NCSCT briefings

We have produced a series of practical briefings for healthcare professionals, who help people to stop smoking, that cover many of the key issues that arise when giving advice to smokers.

To find out more about the briefings, and to read them online free of charge, click on the links below.
Smoking cessation and smokefree policies: Good practice for mental health services
This briefing provides advice on supporting patients admitted to smokefree premises and maximizing the chances of cessation, managing temporary abstinence and implementing and maintaining smokefree po ... [More]
Smoking cessation and smokefree policies - Good practice for mental health services
This briefing provides advice on supporting patients admitted to smokefree premises and maximising the chances of cessation, managing temporary abstinence and implementing and maintaining smokefree po ... [More]
Integrated health behaviour services briefing
This briefing takes a hard look at the evidence on whether integrated health behaviour (lifestyle) services are effective and cost-effective, and makes recommendations about how the commissioning of s ... [More]
Varenicline SPC update
This briefing reports on the findings of the large and comprehensive EAGLES study into the safety and efficacy of varenicline, and on the changes to the summary of product characteristics. ... [More]
Electronic cigarettes: A briefing for stop smoking services
This briefing makes recommendations for stop smoking practitioners and services, provides common questions and suggested answers about e-cigarettes, and summarises the evidence upon which these recomm ... [More]
Prevention v Cessation: effectiveness and cost-effectiveness
Prevention v cessation briefing With public health budgets being cut, some local authorities are favouring smoking prevention activities over stop smoking services. This briefing looks at the evi ... [More]
Four week quit rate briefing
This briefing answers the question we are often asked about whether assessing abstinence at 12 weeks gives us a better idea of the number of clients of Stop Smoking Services who will become permanen ... [More]
Smoking Cessation: a briefing for midwifery staff
The second edition of this briefing gives expert, concise guidance on how to deliver Very Brief Advice (VBA) to pregnant women who smoke and how to carry out routine carbon monoxide (CO) screening w ... [More]
Smoking Cessation and Mental Health: A briefing for front-line staff
For people with mental illness who smoke, stopping smoking will have the greatest impact on their health. This briefing is aimed at those who work in a mental health setting and gives expert, con ... [More]
Quick wins: the short-term benefits of stopping smoking
Stopping smoking is possibly the single most important step a person can take to improve their well-being, whatever their age. Despite the benefits of smoking cessation being self-evident, howeve ... [More]
The 'Not-a-Puff' rule
The ‘Not-a-Puff’ rule is associated with better outcomes than gradual cessation, in both supported and unsupported quit attempts. The ‘Not-a-Puff’ rule involves assisting smokers to stop ... [More]
Stop smoking services: increased chances of quitting
This briefing addresses the evidence behind the following question: What is the basis for the claim ‘Smokers are up to four times more likely to succeed with the English stop smoking services t ... [More]
Smoking and bone health
Poor bone health has a devastating impact in the UK, both in terms of disease morbidity and mortality as well as financial costs. Smoking has long been acknowledged to be a risk factor for poor ... [More]
Combination NRT
The need for this briefing was established when the NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT) accompanied the Department of Health (DH) Tobacco Control Delivery Team on a number of regio ... [More]
Cost-effectiveness of pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation
This briefing addresses the cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions. Analysis shows that when smoking cessation interventions are effective they are invariably also cost-effective; ... [More]
Smoking reduction
Smoking reduction, cutting down the cigarettes smoked per day, is common in the UK. However, the amount that smokers cut down by is relatively small and there is little evidence to suggest that r ... [More]
Cardiovascular disease and varenicline (Champix)
In light of trials reporting on the incidence of cardiovascular serious adverse events among those using varenicline and a call to evaluate the association of cardiovascular serious adverse events w ... [More]
Smoking cessation interventions involving significant others
It is well established that the social environment influences smoking initiation and maintenance, as well as cessation. Observational studies investigating the natural progression towards smoking ... [More]
Varenicline: effectiveness and safety
Despite the evidence on safety and efficacy, getting some local medicines management and prescribers to accept varenicline as an equal ‘first line’ treatment option was in some cases difficult. ... [More]
Managing post-cessation weight gain
Weight gain is a common consequence of stopping smoking but many experts in smoking cessation play this down and often the advice given to clients about possible weight gain and weight management st ... [More]
Waterpipe tobacco smoking
This briefing addresses the misheld belief that waterpipe smoking is a low risk activity. Waterpipe tobacco smoking is increasing and the UK has reported a 210% rise in the number of waterpipe c ... [More]
NCSCT Final Report
This final quarterly report of the three-year Department of Health (DH) funded period of operation for the NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT) relates to the period 1 January to 31 M ... [More]
Stop Smoking Services and Health Inequalities
This briefing looks at the extent to which stop smoking services are reaching the most disadvantaged smokers. It is known that smoking is the single biggest preventable cause of heath inequaliti ... [More]
Changes to the local stop smoking services quarterly data return for 2014 –15
This briefing details a small number of changes that are being made to the collection of outcome data from local stop smoking services. Since 1999 treatment and outcome data from local stop smoki ... [More]


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