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Day One: Monday 30th June 2008  |   9.45am - 9.00pm
Chair: Rashmi Shukla, West Midlands Regional Director for Public Health (biography)
7:30 Registration
  Opening plenary: Key clinical issues
9.45 Main Hall
Welcome and introduction
9:55 Smoking in pregnancy: what midwives do and what women say
Linda Bauld, Reader in Social Policy, University of Bath and UK Centre for Tobacco Control
10:25 User involvement: what can we learn from mental health services?
Alison Cameron, Service User Governor, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, UK
10:50 What smokers say about stopping and relapsing
Eleni Vangeli, Research Psychologist, Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London, UK
11:15 Coffee
11:45 Parallel sessions:
   
Main Hall
Making best use of NRT
John Hughes, Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Family Practice at the University of Vermont, USA

Terrace Room
Tackling smokers in pregnancy
Chair: Ann McNeill, Professor of Health Policy and Promotion, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, UK
  1. Midwives using a positive consent model for referral
    Joan Braithwaite, Stop Smoking Adviser in Pregnancy & Service Coordinator, Central Lancashire PCT, UK
  2. Why do so few pregnant smokers seek help from the Stop Smoking Services?
    Felix Naughton, PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK
  3. Smoking cessation support services in pregnancy in Scotland: key lessons from a mapping exercise
    Susan MacAskill, Senior Researcher, CTCR, University of Stirling and the Open University, UK

London Room
New smoking cessation guidelines for health professionals
Robert West, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK

Cambridge Room
Improving service delivery
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 Smokers Clinic, UK
  1. Increasing the delivery of smoking cessation in Australian hospitals
    John Wiggers, Director, Hunter New England Population Health, New South Wales, Australia
  2. Smoking cessation in Denmark
    Ernst Doets, Psychologist, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
  3. How monitoring can be used to improve service delivery
    John Kemm, Director, West Midlands Public Health Observatory, Birmingham, UK

Oxford Room
Practice development – dentistry, psychology, and gay men
Chair: Gerry McElwee, ASH Northern Ireland
  1. An audit to assess the smoking cessation activities of dental health professionals
    Sheena Kotecha, Senior House Officer Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham, UK
  2. Psychologists and smoking cessation intervention: unrealised potential
    Jenny Bowman, Associate Professor, School of Psyshology, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
  3. Gay men and smoking – not giving up
    Barrie Dwyer, Project Manager, GMFA, London, UK

York Room
Smoking in institutions: a global perspective
Chair: Deborah Arnott, Director, Action on Smoking & Health (ASH), London, UK
  1. Smoke free prisons – the island experience
    Emma Croghan, Consultant, Encouraging Lifestyle Change, Isle of Man
  2. Effectiveness of smoking ban implementation in the psychiatric services in France
    Nicolas Bonnet, Public Health Pharmacist, RHST, Paris, France
  3. Smoke-free policy & inpatient smoking care in Australian mental health services
    Paula Wye, PhD Candidate, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Lancaster Room
How to run rolling groups
Darush Attar-Zadeh, Stop Smoking Trainer & Pharmacist, Ealing, London, UK

Norfolk Room
Hookah & oral tobacco use
Chair: Andy McEwen, Senior Research Nurse, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, UK

  1. Use of oral tobacco by BME groups
    Leena Sankla, Project Director, Cardio Wellness, Reading, UK
  2. How hookah is used in Tehran
    Hooman Sharifi, Research Fellow, Tobacco Prevention and Control Research Center (TPCRC), Tehran, Iran

Surrey Room
Direct marketing
Chair: Linda Durgan, All Wales Smoking Cessation Service
  1. Using direct marketing with relapsed quitters
    Christine Owens, Director of Tobacco Control,The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, Liverpool, UK & Miriam Bell, Roy Castle Fag Ends Liverpool Service Manager, The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, Liverpool, UK
  2. Marketing stop smoking services
    Kerry McKenzie, Health Improvement Programme Manager (Tobacco), NHS Health Scotland, UK

1:00
Lunch

Poster presentations 1:30pm - 2:00pm
Presenters to be by their posters to discuss their work with delegates

   
  York Room
1.30pm - 2.00pm:
SCSRN
Smoking Cessation Service Research Network (SCSRN) meeting
2:15 Parallel sessions:
   
Main Hall
Tackling inequalities: findings and recommendations from a mapping exercise
Chair: Steve Crone, Chief Executive, QUIT, London, UK
Linda Marks, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Public Policy and Health, Durham University, UK

Terrace Room
Varenicline: adherence, delayed quitting and psychiatric events
Chair: Miriam Armstrong, Pharmacy Health Link, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
  1. Adherence to treatment with varenicline and associated abstinence outcomes
    Scott Leischow, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University or Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, USA
  2. Delayed quitting, lapse recovery and long-term outcomes for quitters taking varenicline, bupropion & placebo
    David Gonzales, Senior Researcher and Co-Director, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
  3. Psychiatric events reported in the varenicline prescription-event monitoring study
    Rachna Kasliwal, Clinical Research Fellow, Drug Safety Research Unit, Southampton, UK

London Room
Stop smoking clinics: attendance, processes, and relapse prevention
Chair: Robert West, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
  1. Factors leading up to attending stop-smoking clinics in Malaysia
    Wee Lei Hum, Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  2. One size fits all? An evaluation of the smokers ‘story’ of change in smoking cessation
    Deborah Ritchie, Senior Lecturer and Head of Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK
  3. Relapse prevention in UK stop smoking services
    Shade Agboola, Research Associate, School of Community Health Sciences, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, UK

Cambridge Room
Smoke free homes
Chair: Trish Grierson, Dumfries and Galloway Primary Care NHS Trust, UK

  1. A gendered exploration of smoking lives and smoking in the home in Scotland
    Jude Robinson, Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool, UK
  2. Achieving smoke-free homes - key debates
    Amanda Amos, Professor & Head of Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK

Oxford Room
Out of the ordinary – clients who have oral lesions, opiate dependence and COPD
Chair:Elspeth Lee, Head of Tobacco Control, Cancer Research UK
  1. A qualitative study of patients’ views of a secondary care smoking cessation service
    Vivian Binnie, Lecturer, University of Glasgow Dental School, UK
  2. Smoking cessation for Australian methadone clients
    Jenny Bowman, Associate Professor, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
  3. Every breath I take: smoking cessation for clients with COPD
    Pam Shields, Respiratory Nurse Consultant, Northern Hearts and Lungs Service, Victoria, Australia

York Room
Physical activity
Chair: Dan Tickle, Chief Executive, No Smoking Day, London, UK
  1. Physical activity for smoking cessation during pregnancy
    Michael Ussher, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, St George's University of London, UK
  2. Promotion of physical activity as a cessation aid by NHS stop smoking advisors
    Emma Everson, Research Fellow, School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, UK & Adrian Taylor, Professor, School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, UK
  3. Practical examples of exercises for clients
    Michael Ussher, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, St George's University of London, UK

Lancaster Room
Case study master class
Hayden McRobbie, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Norfolk Room
Smoking in pregnancy: view from the front line & practical lessons from a social marketing initiative
Deborah Richardson, Principal Health Improvement Specialist, Stoke on Trent PCT, UK & Wendy Dudley, Specialist Midwife, Smoking Cessation, University Hospital North Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent, UK


Surrey Room
Smoking cessation in practice (SCIP): creating sustainable delivery systems for smoking interventions
Patricia Hodgson, Regional Tobacco Programme Manager, Regional Public Health Group, Government Office for Yorkshire & the Humber, UK and Heather Thomson, Tobacco Control/Smoking Cessation Lead, Leeds PCT, UK

3:30 Coffee
4:00 Main Hall
Debate: This house believes that hypnotherapy and acupuncture should be treatments provided by NHS Smoking Services

Proposing: Maggie Chapman, Fellow of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis and Amanda Shayle, Chairman, Acupuncture Society and Research & Development, College of Chinese Medicine

Opposing: Paul Aveyard, NIHR Career Scientist, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham, UK & Darcy Brown, Health Improvement Lead for Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation, Darlington and Durham Dales PDA, UK
4:45 Chair's summing up and thanks
4:50 Movement break
5:00 Parallel sponsor symposia:
   
Terrace Room
High Dose NRT : Optimising effective usage
Chair: Robert West, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK,

Panel:
Peter Hajek, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK & John Hughes, Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Family Practice at the University of Vermont, USA


London/Cambridge/Oxford Room
Reaching “hard to reach” groups - case studies and discussion
Chair: Jennifer Percival, Tobacco Policy Advisor, Royal College of Nursing, UK

  • Case study 1: Working with Belfast communities
    Bernie Neeson, Ulster Cancer Foundation, UK
  • Case study 2: Working with BME/Polish communities
    Leena Sankla, Director, Cardio Wellness, Reading, UK & Jennifer Percival, Nursing Tobacco Policy Advisor, Royal College of Nursing, UK

6:00 Film festival & fringe meetings:
   
York Room
Film festival
Films will be shown between 6:00pm and 7:00pm.
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7.00 Conference dinner

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Day Two : Tuesday 1st July 2008  |   8.15am - 3.45pm
Chair: Bryan Stoten, Chair, NHS Confederation (biography)
7:30 Registration and buffet breakfast
8:15 Parallel sponsor symposia:
   

Main Hall
Smokefree central
Alex Bobak, GP, Wandsworth PCT, London, UK & Lisa Fendall, Manager, Smokefree Training, Doncaster Local Stop Smoking Services, UK


London/Cambridge/Oxford Room
Going for gold - achieving quit success this year
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 Smokers Clinic, UK

  1. Warwickshire Stop Smoking Service
  2. Roy Castle Fag Ends Stop Smoking Service
  3. East Lancashire PCT (Blackburn with Darwen Stop Smoking Services)

9:15 Movement break
  Plenary
9.30 Main Hall
The effects of smokefree legislation: the Scottish experience
Sally Haw, Principal Public Health Advisor, Health Scotland, UK
10:00 The effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions in disadvantaged areas
Ann McNeill, Professor of Health Policy and Promotion, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, UK
10:30 The future of stop smoking services within a modern NHS
The Rt Hon Dawn Primarolo MP, Minister of State for Public Health, UK
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Parallel sessions:
   
Main Hall
New developments in smoking cessation: what the future holds
Chair: Miriam Armstrong, Pharmacy Health Link, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

John Hughes, Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Family Practice, University of Vermont, USA


Terrace Room
Three key issues for the field
Chair: Robert West, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK

  1. An audit on NRT prescription for smoking cessation in primary care
    Nicole Suares, Sophie Tuhey & Anna Winfield, Medical Students, University of Leeds, UK
  2. Trial of community outreach smoking cessation workers
    Rachna Begh, Research Associate, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham, UK & Farooq Shah, Birmingham East and North PCT Stop Smoking Service, UK
  3. A comparison of three measures of addiction to cigarettes: daily cigarette consumption, serum cotinine, and the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence
    Robert West, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK

London Room
Reaching out to smokers
Chair: Linda Durgan, All Wales Smoking Cessation Service

  1. Using football to encourage the uptake of stop smoking services in socially deprived areas
    Helen Deaton, Stop Smoking Service Programme Manager, Greenwich PCT, London, UK
  2. Using No Smoking Day to reach your ‘hard to reach’ smokers
    Vishnee Sauntoo, Campaign Manager, Smoking Day, London, UK & Leena Sankla, Director, Cardio Wellness, Reading, UK

Cambridge Room
What Smoke-free meant to Scottish smokers and workplace cessation
Chair: Trish Grierson, Dumfries and Galloway Primary Care NHS Trust, UK

  1. ‘Look after your lungs’ – a way to re-invigorate workplace smoking cessation?
    Christine Owens, Director of Tobacco Control,The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, Liverpool, UK
  2. Smoke-free legislation, quitting and consumption: implications for smoking cessation
    Deborah Ritchie, Senior Lecturer and Head of Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK & Amanda Amos, Professor & Head of Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK

Oxford Room
Service models
Chair: Steve Crone, Chief Executive, QUIT, London, UK
  1. Comparing models of smoking treatment in Glasgow
    Janet Ferguson, Research Associate, University of Bath, UK & Linda Bauld, Reader in Social Policy, University of Bath and UK Centre for Tobacco Control
  2. The effect of proactively identifying smokers and offering smoking cessation support in primary care populations: a cluster-randomised trial
    Rachael Murray, Cancer Research UK Graduate Training Fellow, University of Nottingham, UK
  3. Telephone based stop smoking services - are they worth it?
    Emma Croghan, Consultant, Encouraging Lifestyle Change, Isle of Man

York Room
Neglected smokers?
Chair: Andy McEwen, Senior Research Nurse, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, UK
  1. Treating tobacco use in lower-income, minority emergency department patients
    Michael E. Anders, Associate Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA & Christine E. Sheffer, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA
  2. Smoking cessation for cancer patients - a question of quality of life
    Lars Nielsen, Psychologist, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
  3. Provision of comprehensive smoking cessation care to surgical patients in Australia: the case for routine clinical delivery
    John Wiggers, Director, Hunter New England Population Health, New South Wales, Australia

Lancaster Room
Youth education

Buzzin: A smoking education programme for young people
Jenny Hagues, School Nurse Lead, South Birmingham PCT, UK & Jane Anderson, Graphic designer, South Birmingham PCT, UK

Norfolk Room
How to run rolling groups
Darush Attar-Zadeh, Stop Smoking Trainer & Pharmacist, Ealing, London, UK

12:45
Lunch

Poster presentations 1:15pm - 1:45pm
Presenters to be by their posters to discuss their work with delegates

York Room
1.00pm - 1.45pm:
British Association for Stop Smoking Practitioners (BASSP) meeting

  Final plenary
2:00 Main Hall
Telephone counselling: behavioural support or not?
Christopher Anderson, Program Director, California Smokers' Helpline, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, USA
2:40 Does stopping smoking mean putting on weight?
Paul Aveyard, NIHR Career Scientist, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham, UK
3:10 Conference highlights & implications for practice
Hayden McRobbie, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Clinical Trials Research Unit, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand
3:40 Summing up and close
3:45 Close

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