Tobacco Control Health Inequalities Pilot Programme

In 2010, the UKCTCS was awarded a £1.2 million grant to develop and pilot several projects to implement smoking cessation services in settings associated with health inequalities. There are six pilot projects , each led by a member of staff at one of the collaborating universities.

These projects have now been completed and an academic paper on each project will be published in a forthcoming Addiction supplement which we will publicise as soon as the details are available.  Individual project summaries and final reports are available below.

Please click on a project title for more details. 

PROJECT 1 - Children’s services workforces and smoking cessation services

  • The pilot project involved testing the feasibility of an intergrated referral systems to local NHS Stop Smoking Services and to 'smokefree homes' schemes, targeted at parents and carers registered with Children's Centres.
  • Led by Dr Andy McEwen at University College London, along with colleagues from Nottingham, Bath, Liverpool and Edinburgh universities, this project was based in NHS Stop Smoking Services and Children's Centres in Liverpool and Nottingham. 
  • Project summary document   
  • Final report
 

PROJECT 2 - Mental health and cessation of tobacco use

  • This pilot project involved the development and piloting of a comprehensive tobacco dependence support service, tailored to the needs of patients with mental illness treated in the community and on inpatient ward.
  • Led by Dr Elena Ratschen at the University of Nottingham, this project was based at the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in Nottingham 
  • Project summary document 
  • Final report 
 

PROJECT 3 - Smoking cessation services in prisons

  • This project examined the innovative role of a Regional Tobacco Coordinator (Criminal Justice System) which aimed to develop stop smoking support for offenders by working across criminal justice and relevant public health settings based on a systems approach.
  • The project was led by Susan MacAskill and Michelle Baybutt at the Universities of Stirling and Central Lancashire, along with Douglas Eadie and Jennifer McKell at Stirling University.  The coordinator, Stephen Woods, was based at University of Central Lancashire and worked across the North West.
  • Project summary document 
  • Final report 
 

PROJECT 4 - Relapse prevention in smoking cessation

  • This project describes the development, implementation, and subsequent evaluation, in terms of a practicability and client response, of a text-based relapse prevention service delivered within a routine NHS-SSS service.
  • This project was undertaken by a team of smoking cessation researchers and practitioners from Queen Mary University of London (Hayden McRobbie, Sarah Snuggs, Katie Myers, Peter Hajek) and in association with City and Hackney (Frances Schmocker) and Tower Hamlets (Jill Goddard) Primary Care Trusts.
  • Project summary document  
 

PROJECT 5 - Smokeless tobacco use

  • This pilot project aimed to develop and evaluate a smokeless tobacco cessation service for members of the Indian, Pakistani and Bangladehsi communities.  It assessed how effective the service was at helping people to quit and how happy people were with the service.
  • Led by Professor Ray Croucher at Queen Mary University of London, along with colleagues from Nottingham University, this project was based in NHS Stop Smoking Services in Tower Hamlets (London), Bradford and Leicester. 
 

PROJECT 6 - Pregnancy cessation services

  • This pilot project involved testing an opt-out referral system to local NHS Stop Smoking Services from maternity services and comparing three methods (self-report, carbon monoxide testing and urinary cotinine testing) of identifying smoking in pregnancy.
  • Led by Professor Linda Bauld at the University of Stirling, along with colleagues from Bath, Nottingham, Glasgow and Bristol universities, this project was based in maternity services and NHS Stop Smoking Services in Dudley and South Birmingham. 
  • Project summary document 
  • Final report 
 

 

Programme Leads

Publication

  • Addiction, volume 107

 

 

 

UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies

Epidemiology & Public Health
University of Nottingham

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