Programme grant in Smoking Cessation
A new Programme grant, funded by the National Institute for Health Research, focussed on smoking cessation in hospital and the wider community will be undertaken by the UKCTCS from 2010 to 2015.
The 5 year programme, exploring new approaches to smoking cessation service delivery and prevention of passive smoke exposure in children is led by Professor John Britton and colleagues at the Universities of Nottingham and York, and Nottingham City Primary Care Trust.
The programme comprises of three projects, one hospital based and the other two community based and will explore ways of reaching smokers who are need of support but may be unable to access local stop smoking services.
This project will evaluate the impact of a specialist smoking cessation service on medical wards at Nottingham City Hospital
This study will evaluate the effectiveness of a mobile Stop Smoking Service in the Nottingham area
The research team will explore ways to use medicinal nicotine to help parents abstain from smoking in the home and therefore to reduce passive smoking exposure in children.