These briefings describe how to deliver Very Brief Advice on Smoking (VBA+) and provide examples how the ASK, ADVISE and ACT model can be tailored to different population groups.
We also have a comprehensive suite of short VBA+ training modules on our e-learning site.
We have produced a series of practical briefings and guidance for health and social care professionals who help people to stop smoking. These cover many of the key issues that arise when giving information, advice and support to people who smoke.
The first of these is the Standard Treatment Programme that describes how you deliver the behaviour change techniques needed to maximise your clients' changes of quitting.
To find out more about the briefings, and to read them online or as a PDF free of charge , click on the links below.
These complementary briefings provide practitioners and managers with an overview of supporting patients admitted to smokefree premises and maximising the chances of cessation, managing temporary abstinence and implementing and maintaining smokefree policies.
These complementary briefings both provide practitioners with an overview of cannabis products and methods of harm reduction, and guidance and practical considerations for stop smoking services when developing policies for discussing and recording cannabis use with service users.
Below is a briefing for front line staff that complements our online training module on Very Brief Advice on Smoking for Pregnant Women. We have also tailored a Standard Treatment Programme for Pregnant Women that describes how you deliver the behaviour change techniques needed to maximise your clients' changes of quitting.
New in 2025 are resources to support the National Smoke-free Pregnancy Incentive Scheme.
This NEW section of the NCSCT website will provide information and resources on quitting smoking and on stopping vaping for those working with young people.
There is justified concern about the increasing number of young people using nicotine vapes, especially those who are not smoking, or have never smoked, tobacco. Health and social care professionals, teachers and youth workers need guidance on how to address these concerns and how to support young people to stop vaping. There is also a need to retain focus on the number of young people smoking tobacco, the harm that this causes to their health and the benefits of stopping smoking.