GSK symposium
Navigating the quit attempt: pre-cessation approaches - reaching new quitters and evolving your stop smoking service
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, UK and guest speaker Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
GSK Satellite Symposium
Navigating the quit attempt: Pre-cessation approaches
Monday 22nd June 2009, 12.55 – 14.10, The Main Hall
Reaching new quitters and evolving your Stop Smoking Service
- Come along to learn how to engage with new and different types of quitters as well as gain tips and advice on how to help them quit
- Find out how different services have successfully implemented the pre-cessation approach within their practice
- Hear how different services overcame some of the key challenges that you may face when evolving your service to include a new pre-cessation approach
The session will be Chaired by Gay Sutherland, Clinical Psychologist at Maudsley NHS Trust, London and will include an interactive Q&A session and the opportunity to pose questions to the panel of experts
Sir Ranulph Fiennes, The World’s Greatest Living Explorer, will give a short talk, drawing on experience of overcoming challenging hurdles in small steps, setting targets and reaching goals
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Agenda:
13.05 Introduction
Chair: Gay Sutherland, Research Psychologist at the Tobacco Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London University
13.10 Motivational Speaker
Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the world’s greatest living explorer
13.20 Pre-cessation: Review of the evidence
Gay Sutherland, Chair
13.30 Pre-quit in Practice: A No Smoking Day Initiative
Helen Poole, Smoking Cessation Counsellor, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
13.45 Interactive Q&A session: Identifying and educating potential pre-cessation patients
Gay Sutherland, Chair
Panel:
• Helen Poole, Smoking Cessation Counsellor, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
• Graham Phillips, Pharmacist, Hertfordshire
• Jan Holding, Service Manager, East Lancashire Teaching PCT
14.00 Key Conclusions
Gay Sutherland, Chair
This event is sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare
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