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The evidence base for treatment policy, and universal treatment coverage in England for nicotine add

First published: 10 May 2019 | Last updated: 20 May 2019

Since 1998, England has a national treatment strategy which involves brief advice from health professionals backed up by a network of local NHS Stop Smoking Services (NHS SSS) offering specialist intensive support and medications to stop smoking. This presentation will describe how this situation came about and the extent to which it is evidence based. It will also describe how the strategy has evolved over the last decade and discuss how successful the services are at reaching smokers in the most disadvantaged communities where smoking prevalence is highest. Recent research will also be presented which indicates the impact of England’s treatment strategy on smoking and quitting behaviour in comparison with other countries.

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Professor Ann McNeill

Professor of Tobacco Addiction


Ann McNeill is a Professor of Tobacco Addiction in the National Addiction Centre. She is Deputy Director of the UK Centre for Tobacco & Alcohol Studies (UKCTAS, www.ukctas.ac.uk) an international consortium of 13 universities funded by the UK Clinical Research Collaboration. Ann graduated from the University of Nottingham with a first class joint honours degree in zoology and psychology and then carried out her PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, focusing on the development of dependence on smoking. Since that time she has held a variety of academic and public sector posts focusing largely on tobacco control research. Ann has an established international reputation, receiving a World Health Organisation World No Tobacco Day award for contributions to tobacco control in 1998. She has published more than 250 academic papers book chapters, reports and opinion pieces on the subject and her research ranges across prevention, cessation, harm reduction and local, national and international policy. Ann was a co-author of the recent systematic review of tobacco product packaging which underpinned the recent government consultation on plain packaging and has a particular interest in the relationship between smoking, mental health and inequalities. Ann is interested in any PhD students with an interest in all aspects of smoking and tobacco control research.

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