Speakers
A full list of speakers, along with abstracts and biographies, will be posted here as they become available.

Christopher Anderson, Program Director, California Smokers’ Helpline, Moores UCSD Cancer Center
Telephone counselling: behavioural support or not?

Paul Aveyard, NIHR Career Scientist, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham
Does stopping smoking mean putting on weight?
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Debate: “This house believes that hypnotherapy and acupuncture should be treatments provided by NHS Smoking Services”

Linda Bauld, Reader in Social Policy, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath
Smoking in pregnancy: what midwives do and what women say

Darcy Brown, Health Improvement Lead for Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation, Darlington and Durham Dales PDA
Debate: “This house believes that hypnotherapy and acupuncture should be treatments provided by NHS Smoking Services”

Alison Cameron, Governor of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
User involvement: what can we learn from mental health services?

Maggie Chapman, Fellow of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis
Debate: “This house believes that hypnotherapy and acupuncture should be treatments provided by NHS Smoking Services”

Sally Haw, Principal Public Health Advisor, Health Scotland
The effects of Smokefree: the Scottish experience

Patricia Hodgeson, Regional Tobacco Programme Manager, Regional Public Health Group – Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber
Smoking cessation in practice: creating sustainable delivery systems for smoking interventions

John Hughes, Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Family Practice at the University of Vermont, USA
Making best use of NRT
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New developments in smoking cessation: what the future holds

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Linda Marks, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Public Policy and Health, Durham University
Are inequalities being tackled? Findings from a mapping exercise

Ann McNeill, Professor of Health Policy and Promotion in the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham
The effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions in disadvantaged areas

Hayden McRobbie, Research Fellow, Clinical Trials Research Unit, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Conference highlights and implications for practice

The Rt Hon Dawn Primarolo MP, Minister of State for Public Health
The future of Stop Smoking Services within a modern NHS

Amanda Shayle, Research and Development for the College of Chinese Medicine and Secretary for the Acupuncture Society
Debate: “This house believes that hypnotherapy and acupuncture should be treatments provided by NHS Smoking Services”

Rashmi Shukla, West Midlands Regional Director for Public Health
Chair: Day One

Bryan Stoten, Chair, NHS Confederation
Chair: Day Two

Heather Thomson, Tobacco Control Lead, Leeds PCT
Smoking cessation in practice: creating sustainable delivery systems for smoking interventions

Eleni Vangeli, Research Psychologist, Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London
What smokers say about stopping and relapsing

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