Best practice for smoking cessation within mental health services
Room: Hall 1
Ronnie Troughton, Smoking Cessation Advisor, Tobacco Dependence Research and Treatment Centre, Barts and The London Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London
and
Towards smoke free mental health services - The New Zealand experience
Mark Wallace-Bell, Senior Lecturer in Addictions, National Addiction Center, University of Otago, New Zealand

How to engage GPs in smoking cessation
Room: Northern Rock Foundation Hall
Hayden McRobbie, Research Fellow, Clinical Trials Research Unit, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand and Alex Bobak, GP, Wandsworth PCT, London

Cannabis use and smoking cessation
(includes 'cannabis smoking explained' - a video made specially for the conference by young people)
Room: Northern Arts Studio
Nicky Willis, Smoking Cessation Project Manager, Medway and Swale Stop Smoking Service, Medway PCT

Glucose, St John’s Wort and Nortriptyline: do they help?
Room: Barbour Room
Paul Aveyard, Senior Lecturer, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham

Why some quitters don’t go to NHS stop smoking services
Room: Katherine Shears Studio
Michael Ussher, Senior Lecturer, Psychology Section, Community Health Sciences, St George’s Hospital, University of London

The P.R.I.M.E. theory of motivation and its application to smoking cessation
Room: Hall 2
Robert West, Professor of Health Psychology, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, University College London

Pro-active telephone counselling-quitlines
Room: C6
Kawaldip Sehmi, Director, Health Inequalities, QUIT
and
Quitlines and social exclusion in the UK and Europe
Ruth Bosworth, Director of Services, QUIT

Special populations
Room: C7
Chair: Gerry McElwee, ASH Northern Ireland

Accessing hard to reach black and minority ethnic groups: lessons learnt from research with the Somali population
Lianne Straus, Researcher, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, UCL

Tobacco cessation among south asians in the UK
Leena Sankla, Project Director

Smoking cessation with muslim men
Farah Desai, Stop Smoking Advisor - Communities, Directorate of Public Health, Newham PCT, and Yunus Dudhwala, Multifaith Manager, Newham University Hospital Trust

Treatment models
Room: C10
Chair: Linda Durgan, All Wales Smoking Cessation Service

A combination nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) algorithm for hard-to-treat smokers
Renee Bittoun, Director Smokers Clinic, University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia

A realistic evaluation of an open access stop smoking clinic
Jane Beach, Stop Smoking Specialist Clinical Lead, Springfield Centre, Birmingham

Development of the Drop In Model of practice
Patricia Marshall, Smoking Cessation Service Manager, Tees Stop Smoking Service, Middlesbrough and Wendy Martindale, Specialist Smoking Cessation Link Adviser with Hartlepool PCT

Debate
‘This house believes that six-session group treatment should be abandoned in favour of open rolling groups’
Room: Hall 1

Proposer: Gerard Hastings, Director, Institute for Social Marketing and Centre for Tobacco Control Research, University of Stirling and Open University, Stirling.
Seconder: Christine Owens, Head of Tobacco Control, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, Liverpool
Opposer: Jonathan Foulds, Associate Professor, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Public Health and Director, Tobacco Dependence Program, USA
Seconder: Agnes McGowan, Principal Health Promotion Officer, Smoking Concerns, Glasgow

Professional Development
Room: Katherine Shears Studio
Chair: Miriam Armstrong, Pharmacy Health Link, RPSGB

Clinical practice guidelines for smoking cessation and smoking cessation in clinical practice
Renee Bittoun, Director Smokers Clinic, University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia

A report on the health professionals and smoking cessation in a larger Europe EU project - How does England compare?
Paul Hooper, Regional Tobacco Policy Manager, Birmingham and Jennifer Percival Royal College of Nursing Tobacco Education project

Smoking cessation training in Scotland
Mary-Grace Burinski, Senior Training and Development Officer, ASH Scotland and Eithne Greenshields, Regional Training Officer, ASH Scotland

The Healthcare Commission's improvement review of tobacco control
Room: Northern Arts Studio
Charlotte Blencowe, Acting Public Health Development Manager, The Healthcare Commission, London and Joanne Hunter, The Healthcare Commission, London

Film: The Insider Room: Hall 1 Special film screening in the spectacular setting of Hall 1 of the Sage: The Insider Classic film documenting the stand taken by Jeffrey Wigand, a former chief scientist at Brown & Williamson Tobacco and the efforts of the tobaccco industry to silence him. Starring Al Pacino as Lowell Bergman, the 60 Minutes producer who exposes the story, Russell Crowe (as Wigand), Christopher Plummer and Michael Gambon. A real antidote to most based-on-a-true-story films, this is a fascinating, compelling film. A must see for everyone in the smoking cessation field. Click here for more info.

Exploring the evidence
Room: Hall 2

Exploring the Evidence - Cochrane reviews on smoking cessation
Lindsay Stead, Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Review Group Co-ordinator

The nicotine withdrawal syndrome
Room: Hall 1
John Hughes, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, USA

Better practices for youth smoking cessation: lessons from the NHS Health Scotland young people and smoking cessation pilot programme
Room: Hall 2
Amanda Amos, Reader in Health Promotion, Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School
Wendy Gnich, Research Fellow, Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change, University of Edinburgh Medical School
Stephen Platt, Director, Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change, University of Edinburgh Medical School
Christine Sheehy, Senior Researcher, Scottish Centre for Social Research, Edinburgh

Best practice for smoking cessation in pregnancy
Room: Northern Rock Foundation Room
Hayden McRobbie, Research Fellow, Clinical Trials Research Unit, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Perceived barriers towards pregnant women seeking out support at smoking cessation services
John Taylor, School of Human Development, Academic Division of Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Child Health, University of Nottingham, City Hospital.

Self-help smoking cessation interventions in pregnancy - a systematic review
Felix Naughton, PhD Student, General Practice & Primary Care Research Unit, University of Cambridge
and
Evaluation of a programme of intensive support to help pregnant women stop smoking
Ann Fitchett, Pregnancy Stop Smoking Advisor for South Birmingham PCT

If smokers smoke for nicotine, why isn’t NRT more effective?
Room: Barbour Room
Peter Hajek, Professor, Tobacco Dependence Research and Treatment Centre, Barts and The London Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London

Best practice for smoking cessation in prisons
Room: Katherine Shears Studio
Paul Hayton, Health Promotion Lead/ WHO Health in Prisons Project Lead for Prison Health and Director of the Healthy Prisons Programme at UCLan and Susan MacAskill, Senior Researcher, Institute for Social Marketing, University of Stirling and The Open University

Stopping smoking online
Room: Northern Arts Studio
Jean-Francois Etter, Senior Lecturer, IMSP-CMU, Geneva, Switzerland

A workshop on challenges to the future of NHS stop smoking services (and possible solutions)
Room: C6
Russell Moody, Training and Development Co-ordinator, The Smoking Advice Service, Nuffield Clinic, Plymouth

Something a little different
Room: C10
Chair: Trish Grierson, Dumfries and Galloway Primary Care NHS Trust

Don't quit yet
Heather Muir, Smoking Cessation Practitioner, Dunedin Hospital, New Zealand

Impact of biomarker feedback on smoking
Lion Shahab, Research Health Psychologist / PhD Student, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit

Smoking cessation – the military experience
Annie Owen, Army SC Project Co-ord and Lt. Louise Storey RN

Submitted papers
Room: C7
Chair: Ruth Bosworth, Director of Services, QUIT

Helping stop smoking services plan for and maximize the effects of smoke free legislation
Christine Owens, Manager, The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, Liverpool

Marketing smoking cessation programmes to the business world
Maxine Linnell, Smoking Cessation Specialist, Resolution Stop Smoking Service and Nagina Parwez, Smoking Cessation Specialist for Resolution (County) NHS Stop Smoking Service.

Book launch

Manual of Smoking Cessation

At the preconference registration reception at the Baltic rooftop restaurant you will have an opportunity to see hot off the presses the new 'Manual of Smoking Cessation' by Andy McEwen, Peter Hajek, Hayden McRobbie and Robert West at it's launch. The book will be available to delegates at a special introductory price.

For full details, click here