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Day 1 |
Thursday 14th June 2007 |
7.30 |
Registration |
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Setting the scene
Room: Main Hall
Opening plenary session
Chair:John Britton, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Nottingham City Hospital |
9.45 |
Welcome and introduction |
10.00 |
The global smoking cessation effort: where the UK stands
Paul Hooper, Regional Tobacco Policy Manager for the West Midlands |
10.25 |
What next after smoke free?
Deborah Arnott, Director, Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) |
10.50 |
Challenges and opportunities in supporting smokers to stop
Nicky Willis, Team Leader, Supporting Smokers to Stop, Tobacco Policy Team, Department of Health |
11.05 |
Where next for smoking cessation?
Gerard Hastings, Director of the Institute for Social Marketing and Centre for Tobacco Control Research, University of Stirling and Open University |
11.30 |
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Key issues for UK services
Room: Main Hall
Plenary session |
12.15 |
Mental health: smoking, treatment and going smoke free
Eden Evins, Director, Addiction Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital & Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA |
12.45 |
NRT in the real world of smoking cessation
Renee Bittoun, Director of the Smokers Clinic, University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia |
1.15 |
Lunch |
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Poster presentations
1.30pm - 2.00pm
Presenters will be by their posters to discuss their work with delegates |
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2.30 |
Parallel
sessions:
2.30pm - 3.30pm
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Best Practice
Room: Main Hall
Chair: Deborah Arnott, Director Action on Smoking & Health
1) Developing best practice in Smoking Cessation
Steve Crone, Chief Executive, QUIT
2) Factors in successful delivery models: North East NHS Stop Smoking Services
Andy Graham, Regional coordinator & Ailsa Rutter, Director, Fresh Smoke Free North East
3) Stop smoking projects for pregnant women and people faced with inequalities: evaluation of the impact of the PATH support fund
Susan MacAskill, Senior Researcher, Institute for Social Marketing, University of Stirling and Open University & Amanda Amos, Professor of Health Promotion, Public Health Sciences, Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh
Room: C5 Chalon
*Early findings from the Tobacco Control National Support Team
Keith Burnett, Delivery Manager (North), Department of Health Tobacco Control National Support Team & Marie Meredith, Department of Health
Young people
Room: C6 Reims
Chair: Linda Durgan, All Wales Smoking Cessation Service
1) TXT2STOP – Evaluation of text message content as a stop smoking intervention
Ruth Bosworth, Director of Services, QUIT & Cari Free, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
2) A smoke free experience just across the water
Alun Williams, Project Manager, GASP & Diane Lawrence, Manager, GASP
3) Helping teenagers to stop smoking: comparative observations across youth settings in Cardiff
Hannah Bowles, Youth Health Development Officer & Alison Maher, Marine Chambers, Cardiff
Service monitoring
C7 Eperney
Chair: Gay Sutherland, Research Psychologist, Tobacco Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Smoking Cessation Clinic
1) Experiences from the first two years of the national smoking cessation monitoring/national smoking cessation database in Scotland
Linsey Galbraith, Principal Information & Development Officer, ISD Scotland
2) IC screaming statistics. Reporting on the temptation of smoking cessation
Alyson Whitmarsh, The Information Centre for Health and Social Care
3) Monitoring the impact of stop smoking services: exploring the geography of demand and supply
Graham Clarke, School of Geography, Leeds
*Special groups
C8 Bouzy
Chair: Ann McNeill, Professor of Health Policy and Promotion in the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham
1) Smoking cessation in later life: what difference does brief intervention training make?
Susan Kerr, Senior Research Fellow, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Community Health, Glasgow Caledonian University
2) QUIT’s Smoking and Mental Health Project: An overview of the service user involvement in the development of a free motivational resource
Terri Forward, Smoking & Mental Health Project Co-ordinator, QUIT
3) Smoking cessation in two socially disadvantaged communities in North & West Belfast
Darren Samuel Gowdy, Community Health Development Worker, Ardoyne Shankill HLC, Belfast
Cut down then stop
D1 Saint Julien
1) Cut Down Then Stop Programmes. How do they run? How effective are they and how costly? What is their place in the NHS? Results from a review for the NICE guidelines
Paul Aveyard, Senior Lecturer, Department of Primary Care & General Practice, University of Birmingham
2) Innovations in smoking in pregnancy
Mary O’Connor, Midwife Specialist, Nobles Hospital, Isle of Man
Smoking Cessation & Hospital patients
D3 Fronsac
Chair: Elspeth Lee, Tobacco Control Manager, Cancer Research UK
1) Cost effective ways of improving referrals from acute trusts and foundation hospitals
Maggie Thornton, Smoking Cessation Lead (South Wiltshire), Wiltshire PCT, Barcroft Medical Centre
2) Irish tobacco legislation increases smoking cessation in hospital patients
Kirsten Doherty, Researcher, School of Public Health and Population Science, University College Dublin
3) Pre-operative smoking cessation
Gillian Bruce, Lead Smoking Cessation Nurse Specialist, Acute Services Smoking Cessation Service, Forth Valley NHS Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary
D5 Talbot
*Harm reduction : lessons from the drugs field & snus: a practical workshop
Neil Hunt, Senior Research Associate, The European Institute of Social Services, University of Kent, Director of Research for KCA
Service Promotion
D14 Lussac
Chair: Miriam Armstrong, Pharmacy Health Link, RPSGB
1) Setting up and running business based work clinics
Neda Hormozi, Tobacco and Smokefree Coordinator & Lynn Stanley, Parsons Green Health Centre
2) The development of social marketing as an effective method of reducing the rates of women who smoke before, during and after pregnancy
Fiona McKie, Tobacco Prevention Officer, Boswell House, Ayr
3) Quit & Win
Debbie Nelson, Health Promotion Officer, Health at Work Festival Business Centre, Glasgow
Shisha, genes & Radon
D15 Libourne
Chair: Robert West, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, University College London
1) The prevalence of shisha smoking among British university students, smoke intake, and symptoms of addiction
Daniel Jackson, Medical student, Department of Primary Care & General Practice, University of Birmingham
2) Could the key to quitting lie in the genes? A pragmatic clinical evaluation of the NicoTest in primary care
Lisa Miles, Projects Manager, g-Nostics Ltd
3) Smoking cessation and radon remediation: efficacy and cost-effectiveness. Modelling using data from a NHS smoking cessation programme
Karen Timson, Health Improvement Coordinator & George Shield, Northamptonshire Teaching PCT
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3.30 |
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4.15 |
Redefining the role of cessation specialists: what needs to be done
John Hughes, Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Family Practice at the University of Vermont, USA
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5.00 |
Chair's summing up and thanks |
5.05 |
Movement break (drinks and biscuits served to tables and in foyer) |
5.20 |
Symposium sponsored by Pfizer Consumer Health Products Company
Room: Main Hall
5.20pm - 6.20pm
The future of the NHS Smoking Cessation services
Chair: Robert West, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London
Panel:
Deborah Arnott, Director, Action on Smoking & Health (ASH)
Ailsa Rutter, Director, Fresh Smoke Free North East
Gay Sutherland, Research Psychologist, King's College London
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6.20 |
Movement break (wine, soft drinks and sandwiches served to tables and outside) |
6.35 |
Symposium sponsored by Nicotinell
Room: Main Hall
6.35pm - 7.35pm
Know your enemy – then borrow their best ideas
Keith Burnett, Delivery Manager (North), Department of Health Tobacco Control National Support Team
A quick rough guide to the marketing approach of the tobacco industry, what they do well, what we can learn from this in beating them to their customers, and just where ‘social marketing’ really fits into this – panacea, buzz-word, or somewhere in between?
The Isle of Wight Experience
Carol Foley, Coordinator for the Isle of Wight
Yoga and meditation to cope with withdrawal symptoms
Rosaleen Bloomsfield, Yoga and Meditation Teacher, London
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7.45 |
Evening parallel
sessions:
7.45pm - 8.45pm
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8.45 |
Close |
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Day 2 |
Friday 15th June 2007 |
7.30 |
Buffet breakfast outside Main Hall for symposium sessions
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8.15 |
Symposium sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline
Room: Main Hall
8.15am - 9.15am
Don’t let smoke free fizzle out: engaging ideas to achieve your targets
Chair: Gay Sutherland, Research Psychologist, Tobacco Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Smoking Cessation Clinic
So what happens now?
Current experience suggests that numbers of quitters seeking advice as a result of the Smoke Free Legislation are at their peak, but how do we prevent these numbers tailing off?
Please join us to discuss:
- The realities of what happens after the legislation
- Innovative and practical case studies of Event Based Engagement, Patient Engagement Via Telephone Advice Lines and Partnering with Local Businesses to make sure we make the most of the Smoke Free Legislation in the long term
- Your experiences and ideas of how we can maximise the Smoke Free Legislation opportunities
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9.15 |
Movement break |
9.20 |
Symposium sponsored by Pfizer
Room: Main Hall
9.20am - 10.20am
Abandon Theatre and Pfizer Limited Present ‘Brief Encounters’
Directed by: Professor Robert West
Featuring: Darcy Brown, Dr Paul Aveyard, Gay Sutherland, Heather Thomson
and a company of esteemed actors
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10.20 |
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11.00 |
Parallel sessions
11.00am - 12.00pm
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Treatment
Main Hall
Chair: Ann McNeill, Professor of Health Policy and Promotion in the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham
1) An algorithm for optimal smoking cessation treatment
John Hughes, Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Family Practice at the University of Vermont, USA
2) A randomised controlled trial of weekly versus basic smoking cessation support in primary care
Paul Aveyard, Senior Lecturer, Department of Primary Care & General Practice, University of Birmingham
3) A study of relapse prevention in the NHS Stop Smoking Services: your help needed
Tim Coleman, School of Community Health Sciences, Division of Primary Care, Queen's University Medical Centre, Nottingham
Smoking & Stopping
C5 Chalon
Chair: Andy McEwen, Senior Research Nurse, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London
1) Resistant & resilient smokers in Southwark
Wendy Rickard, Reader in Public Health, Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, London South Bank University
2) Response to offer of hypnotherapy and success rates in smokers who have relapsed after treatment by the NHS Stop Smoking Service
Maria Spellacy, Community Smoking Advisor, Leeds
3) Exploring the process of quitting smoking and staying stopped: a qualitative study of long-term quitters
Eleni Vangeli, Research Psychologist, Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London
Pregnancy
C6 Reims
Chair: Steve Crone, Chief Executive, QUIT
1) Incorporation of a point-of-care cotinine test into routine community antenatal care to reduce smoking in pregnancy: a pilot study
Jane Giles, Specialist Stop Smoking Adviser, Buckinghamshire Stop Smoking Service c/o Public Health
2) High impact actions to reduce smoking in pregnancy
Patricia Hodgson, Regional Tobacco Programme Manager, Regional Public Health Group - Government Office for Yorkshire & the Humber
3) Increased referrals following routine carbon monoxide monitoring in antenatal clinics
Ann Fitchett, Stop Smoking Specialist Nurse Advisor, Pregnancy and Child Health, Public Health, Birmingham
Young people
C7 Eperney
Chair: Jon Derricott, Exchange Supplies
1) How early is early?
Lisa Fendall & Marlyn Stothard, Choosing Health Development Worker, Doncaster PCT
2) www.quitbecause.co.uk
Rebecca Algar, QUIT Because Team
3) Motivation for smoking uptake and effective intervention strategies: a qualitative study of adolescents
Jennifer Fidler, Research Psychologist, Health Behaviour Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health University College, London
Social Marketing
C8 - Bouzy
Chair: Neil Hunt, Senior Research Associate, The European Institute of Social Services, University of Kent, Director of Research for KCA
1) Dramatically increasing quitters through social marketing: a practical example
Ben O'Brien, Head of Marketing & Communications, Knowsley Health & Social Care
2) Generating throughput and quitters for ‘hard to reach’ smokers
Leena Sankla, Project Director, Cardio Wellness Charity
3) Using Mosaic and health equity audit to improve Nottingham’s Stop Smoking Service
Indu Hari, Operational Coordinator, New Leaf Stop Smoking Service, Directorate of Health Equality, Nottingham
*Substance use & smoking
D1 Saint Julien
1) Understanding illicit heroin use: a session to help smoking cessation workers feel more confident about working with heroin users and specialist drug services
Andrew Preston, Exchange Supplies
2) Changing minds: A tobacco treatment best practice initiative for addiction professionals
Dan Steeves, Community Outreach Worker, Addiction Prevention & Treatment Services, Capital Health, Nova Scotia, Canada
Service Development
D2 Mouton Cadet
Chair: Peter Hajek, Professor, Tobacco Dependence Research and Treatment Centre, Barts and The London Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London
1) Commissioning a charitable organisation to provide smoking cessation services to deprived communities in Slough: a local public sector agreement
Russell Carter, Berkshire Tobacco Control Coordinator, Upton Hospital, Slough
2) The accessibility and responsiveness of a nurse prescriber-led service
Gillian Mcllhinney,Smoking Cessation Specialist Adviser & June Porrit, Queensway House, Middlesbrough
3) Evaluation of a peer support scheme for community pharmacy smoking cessation
Seher Kayikci, Smoking Cessation and Prevention Manager & Delphine Grynszpan, Islington PCT
*Special groups
D3 Fronsac
Chair: Hayden McRobbie, Research Fellow, Clinical Trials Research Unit, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand
1) Smoking cessation in later life: what difference does brief intervention training make?
Susan Kerr,Senior Research Fellow, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Community Health, Glasgow Caledonian University
2) QUIT’s Smoking and Mental Health Project: An overview of the service user involvement in the development of a free motivational resource
Terri Forward, Smoking & Mental Health Project Co-ordinator, QUIT
3) Smoking cessation in two socially disadvantaged communities in North & West Belfast
Darren Samuel Gowdy, Community Health Development Worker, Ardoyne Shankill HLC, Belfast
D5 Talbot
*Early findings from the Tobacco Control National Support Team
Keith Burnett, Delivery Manager (North), Department of Health Tobacco Control National Support Team & Marie Meredith, Department of Health
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12.00 |
Lunch |
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Poster presentations
12.30pm - 1.00pm
Presenters will be by their posters to discuss their work with delegates |
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Key clinical issues
Room: Main Hall
Plenary
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Chair: Paul Hooper, Regional Tobacco Policy Manager for the West Midlands |
1.00 |
Varenicline: implications for the field
Alex Bobak, GP, Wandsworth PCT, London |
1.30 |
Smoking cessation with hospital in-patients
Nancy A. Rigotti, MD Director, Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA |
2.00 |
NICE review of brief interventions: what does it mean for you?
Hayden McRobbie, Research Fellow, Clinical Trials Research Unit, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand |
2.30 |
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3.00 |
NICE review of NHS smoking cessation services
Kirsten Bell, Tobacco Research Coordinator/Research Associate, British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health, Canada.
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3.30 |
Conference rapporteur: conference highlights and implications for practice
Russ Moody, Training & Development Coordinator, Plymouth Stop Smoking Service |
3.50 |
The year ahead for UK smoking cessation
Robert West, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London
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4.10 |
Summing up |
4.15 |
Close |
(* denotes session is repeated)
> Day 1
> Day 2
> A-Z of speakers
> Poster presentations
> Stand and floor plan
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