Amanda Amos
Dr Amanda Amos is Reader in Health Promotion in the Division of Community Health Sciences at Edinburgh University. She has a longstanding research interest in smoking and tobacco control. She is a board member of ASH Scotland, a founder member of The International Network of Women Against Tobacco and a senior editor of the international journal Tobacco Control.

Deborah Arnott
Deborah Arnott has been the Director of ASH, one of the UK's leading campaigning charities, since May 2003. Previously Head of Consumer Education for the Financial Services Authority (FSA), Deborah set up the FSA's consumer education function from scratch and while there was successful in lobbying to get financial education into the school curriculum. She has a varied background including being the first female Industrial Relations Officer at Triumph Cars, an MBA from Cranfield and experience as a journalist both in print and in television. As a producer, director and then programme editor in factual programmes for London Weekend Television she developed and launched a wide range of programmes for Channel 4 and LWT.

Mark Braham
Mark is a Public Health Specialist, specialising in tobacco control for the past 12 years as a Health Promotion Officer, Smokefree Alliance Co-ordinator and currently as Service Manager of a Stop Smoking Service for three primary care trusts in Leicestershire. Between 2001 - 2003, he co-ordinated the Department of Health's national pilot project to develop smoking cessation services in prisons and was author of Acquitted: best practice guidance for developing services in prisons (2003).

Steve Crone
Steve Crone is Chief Executive of QUIT. QUIT provides a range of innovative programmes, including Quitlines, counselling by email and specialist programmes for minority ethnic communities, youth and pregnant women. QUIT also provides training programmes for health professionals and a range of services to PCT's. Steve is also Chairman of the European Network of Quitlines, which aims to promote best practice in Quitline delivery across Europe. The European Network of Quitlines now comprises 25 member states.

Jonathan Foulds
Jonathan Foulds PhD is an Associate Professor and Director of the Tobacco Dependence Program at UMDNJ School of Public Health. He trained as a clinical psychologist in the United Kingdom and has spent most of his career developing and evaluating methods to help smokers beat their addiction to tobacco. He has published over 50 papers on tobacco and is Vice President of the Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence (ATTUD).

Fiona Gillison
Fiona Gillison joined the Tobacco Dependence Research and Treatment Centre (TDRTC) at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry in 2000, having completed a Masters degree in Health Psychology at City University, and spent some time working with a newly formed primary care group (now a primary care trust). During her time at the TDRTC, she co-ordinated the East London Specialist Smokers Clinic and contributed to the Centre's range of research projects, taking a particular interest in relapse prevention. In 2003 she led in the development of a weight management clinic for ex-smokers, using a similar model of social and behavioural support to that used in smoking cessation. She has now moved to Bath University to undertake a PhD in Health Psychology, and continues to be involved in the training of smoking cessation advisers.

Carmel O'Gorman
Carmel O’Gorman began her professional career as a nurse and midwife, having worked mainly in the North of England, but more recently in the West Midlands Region. Her current post is as the Midwifery Lead for Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy at Good Hope NHS Trust Hospital in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. A challenging and rewarding aspect of this post has been successfully implementing and developing an integrated service between Good Hope maternity services and North Birmingham PCT stop smoking service. It is a “quality” service, which supports pregnant women to improve their own health and give their babies a smoke free start in life. A women’s health advocate with a particular interest in the tobacco problem and the special concerns about women smoking, she is also a graduate in Women’s Health studies at the University of Central England in Birmingham. Instrumental in addressing the need for smoking cessation training, she has delivered multi-disciplinary pregnancy-specific training locally and also enjoys lecturing on the impact of tobacco on women’s health at the UCE in Birmingham too.

Peter Hajek
Peter Hajek is Professor of Clinical Psychology, Head of Psychology and Director of the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. His research is concerned primarily with understanding smoking behaviour, and developing and evaluating smoking cessation treatments.

John R Hughes
John R Hughes, MD is Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Family Practice at the University of Vermont. Dr Hughes is board certified in Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry. His major focus has been clinical research on tobacco use. Dr Hughes was the recipient of the first Ove Ferno Award for research on nicotine dependence and the Alton Ochsner Award Relating Smoking and Health. He is a co-founder and past president of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Dr Hughes is Chair of the Vermont Tobacco Evaluation and Review Board which oversees VT's multi-million dollar tobacco control programmes.
He has over 300 publications on nicotine and other drug dependencies. Dr Hughes has been a consultant on tobacco policy to the World Health Organization, the US Food and Drug Administration, and the
White House.

Pip Mason
After qualifying as a registered nurse, Pip moved into counselling people with alcohol problems and other forms of dependence. With over 20 years' experience of running services in day centres, rehabilitation units, primary health care, prisons and the courts she now offers consultancy and training services internationally from a base in Birmingham, UK. Depending on the services commissioned, Pip either
works alone or in partnership with other reputable consultants.

Pip is an honorary lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham.

Andy McEwen
Andy McEwen graduated with a social sciences degree in 1986 and qualified as a registered mental health nurse in 1990. He worked in acute and forensic psychiatry before specialising in the field of substance misuse treatment. In 1997 he completed an MSc in Addictive Behaviour at St George's Hospital Medical School before beginning his clinical and then academic career in smoking cessation there with Professor Robert West. In 2003 he took up post as Senior Research Nurse at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, University College London. He referees for a variety of academic journals and also acts as a consultant to the Department of Health, Health Development Agency and to a number of smoking cessation services on the delivery of treatment services. He retains an interest in nursing research and is lead research nurse for St George's NHS Trust. His current research includes surveys of smokers and health professionals, pharmacokinetic studies on nicotine delivery systems and clinical trials of behavioural treatments.

Hayden McRobbie
Hayden McRobbie is a Research Fellow at the Tobacco Dependence Research Centre at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. After graduating from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 1996, he worked in general medicine and surgery before taking up his current post working with Professor Peter Hajek in 1999. He is also a clinician at the Royal London Hospital Smokers' Clinic, one of the largest in the UK.
Hayden is currently studying for a PhD looking at alleviation of the tobacco withdrawal syndrome.

Gay Sutherland
Currently a Research Psychologist at the Tobacco Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London University and Hon. Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Smoking Cessation Clinic. Gay has been involved in treating and researching tobacco dependence for 18 years.

Research interests include trials of the nicotine nasal spray, patch, inhaler and the sublingual tablet,
and investigations of the potential of naltrexone, mecamylamine and combined nicotine replacement therapy for smokers. She has examined the potential of reducing the harm for smokers unable or unwilling to quit, through studies of new cigarettes prototypes, such as Premier and Eclipse. Recent research interests have included collaborative studies trying to identify genes related to smoking and investigations of the roles of smoking and quitting on oral health and immune function. She is a Trustee of the charity QUIT, and President-Elect of The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco - Europe.

Michael Ussher
Dr Michael Ussher is a Lecturer in Health Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School. His research focuses on both smoking cessation and physical activity. He is the author of the Cochrane Review on 'Exercise Interventions in Smoking Cessation' and has published numerous book chapters and articles in leading scientific journals relating to the role of exercise in smoking cessation. He is currently considering the role of exercise for pregnant smokers and is continuing with a series of experimental studies examining the effects of short bouts of exercise on tobacco withdrawal symptoms and cravings.

Robert West
Robert West is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, University College London. He is also Editor of Addiction and has published over 250 scientific works. He has been researching tobacco use since 1982 and is co-author of both the English and Scottish National Smoking Cessation Guidelines. His current research includes clinical trials of new smoking cessation treatments, studies of the acute effects of cigarette withdrawal and population studies of smoking patterns (see www.rjwest.co.uk).

Ben Youdan
Ben Youdan is the Chief Executive of No Smoking Day and has been with the charity for 4 years. He has worked on secondment to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) in the UK and for ASH New Zealand, has presented at major conferences around the world and currently represents the tobacco control community in the UK to the European Network for Smoking Prevention. Prior to joining No Smoking Day, Ben was President of the Student Union at York University where he studied Social Policy.

Shu-Hong Zhu
Shu-Hong Zhu, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine in the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Zhu is Principal Investigator of the California Smokers' Helpline, a statewide tobacco cessation service recently recognized with an Award for Program Excellence from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. His research focuses on smoking behavior and cessation interventions, with a bent toward population-based studies. He began his research with general adult populations and has extended to adolescents, pregnant smokers, smokers using pharmacotherapy, and smokers of low socio-economic status. His work is noted for its quick application of research findings to public health settings, and was honored with a University of California Wellness Lecture Award from the California Wellness Foundation. A psychologist with a strong background in research methodology, Dr. Zhu has published on intervention as well as experimental design. He consults widely with national and international health and governmental agencies and has been a consultant for the World Health Organization and the World Bank on tobacco control initiatives.