Briefings and practice guidance

Very Brief Advice (VBA+)

Behavioural support for smoking cessation

Smoking cessation and mental health

Smoking cessation and cannabis use

Smoking cessation and pregnancy

Young people and stopping smoking

Young people and stopping vaping

Stop smoking aids

Stop smoking aids resources

Vaping resources

Nicotine Replacement Therapy

Secondary care resources

Inpatient Tobacco Dependence Treatment Resources

NHS Acute Inpatient Tobacco Dependence Adviser Training Resources

NHS Mental Health Inpatient Tobacco Dependence Adviser Training Resources

Communicating with high-risk individuals about lung cancer screening

NHSE Competency frameworks for tobacco dependence treatment in secondary care

NHS Community Pharmacy SCS

NHS Community Mental Health Tobacco Treatment Training Resources

Technical enquiries

Training enquiries

Clinical enquiries

Commissioning resources

Resources for commissioners and tobacco leads

Research resources

Yorkshire and Humber Workforce Development Programme

Guidance and evidence reviews

Department of Health and Social Care Guidance

Practice guidance

Cochrane reviews: behaviour intervention

Cochrane reviews: pharmacological interventions

Cochrane reviews: community interventions

Cochrane reviews: interventions in other settings

Training resources

Virtual training courses

Training resources

Details about the NCSCT

NCSCT Training Standard

The NCSCT Training Standard was replaced in 2026 by the Competency framework for stop smoking practitioners

This document lists the learning outcomes of training courses for stop smoking practitioners founded upon evidence-based behaviour change techniques and approved by a panel of key stakeholders and experts convened by the NCSCT.

This current version was updated in 2018.

NCSCT Training Standard