Quit smoking support a hit with inpatients

Quit smoking support a hit with inpatients

A smoking cessation service offered to patients at a West Midlands NHS Trust has led to more than 40 per cent take on the challenge to quit.

What are the best ways to help people to stop using smokeless tobacco?

What are the best ways to help people to stop using smokeless tobacco? Key messages Counselling, brief advice, varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy may all be effective ways to help people quit using smokeless tobacco. We need more research from countries in South and Southeast Asia, where smokeless tobacco is most commonly used and where there are the most different kinds of smokeless tobacco. What is smokeless tobacco? Smokeless tobacc…

Quit smoking support a hit with inpatients | Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

A smoking cessation service offered to inpatients at the Trust has led to more than 40 per cent take on the challenge to quit. Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust has been working collaboratively with Public Health teams from both Sandwell Council and Birmingham City Council to offer the programme to inpatients and those coming through the Lung Cancer Screening Programme (formerly the Targeted Lung Health Checks). As a result, 20 per cent of …