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Brining you the latest in policy, practice and innovations. Join the SC community at SCaH 2025 and enhance your smoking cessation superpowers. Early bird rates now available: smokingcessationandhealth.co.uk/register/

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. It will be a brilliant opportunity for all colleagues. Don’t miss out 🔽 smokingcessationandhealth.co.uk

All together now. The smoking cessation community comes together as one. 5th March 2025 - Join us in York or online at SCaH 2025. smokingcessationandhealth.co.uk/register/

‘This could undermine progress in reducing smoking’ Beware unintended consequences

The national PGD for Varenicline is published, see here sps.nhs.uk/articles/varen… Sterling work from NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service and colleagues - make your Medicines Management team aware that here is another choice for people who need to stop smoking

Collectively, these findings suggest there is an opportunity to boost smoking cessation among older adults by increasing their use of e-cigarettes to support quit attempts, which could help to reduce inequalities in smoking.

Out now! Oct 'Let's Talk E-cigarettes' podcast @jhb19 & Nicola Lindson of CochraneTAG talk #ecigs & interview Stephen Higgins of @vcenterbh on low nicotine cigs (VLNC), #vapes & flavours for #quitsmoking Thanks to Cancer Research UK Policy Listen on Spotify & iTunes podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/lets-ta…

I am really pleased to be invited back to the Royal College of General Practitioners conference on Managing Addictions in Primary Care in January 25. I will be talking about smoking and tobacco harm reduction among people experiencing homelessness and results from @ProjectSCeTCH rcgp.my.site.com/s/lt-event?id=…

New paper led by the excellent Sarah Jackson with data from the Smoking Toolkit Study With so much focus on young people, what’s going on with our older adults? And let’s be clear, 65+ is still a good age to quit! + choice always matters. See the thread below 👇🏼

As smoking becomes a counter culture behaviour there is a real risk of this, it’s almost inevitable.

Interesting read on the re-glamorisation of smoking bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… We recently estimated that 350 UK young adults start smoking every day academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-ar… Is this being driven by celebs and influencers being pictured - and sometimes actively promoting - smoking?

Clearly written article underscores the need to get the balance right when it comes to regulating vaping. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Worth trying for everyone who smokes! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39494129/

The cost-effectiveness of giving people who smoke a vape to try pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39482840/

Breathing issues cause more emergency NHS admissions than any other condition - one in eight of all emergency hospital admissions in 2023-24 were for a respiratory diagnosis theguardian.com/society/2024/n… Asthma + Lung UK Royal Brompton and Harefield Guy's and St Thomas' British Thoracic Society (BTS)

expert reaction to NHS rollout of ‘stop-smoking’ pill Varenicline sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reactio…

After 3 years I’m proud to announce we will be sharing the findings of the first trial I’ve managed, and first ever trial offering vapes to those accessing services for those experiencing homelessness.

I’m reviewing resources that aim to tackle youth vaping - if you have any examples, please email them to [email protected] Thanks

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