Presentations - 2008 UK National Smoking Cessation Conference

Presentations
Full list of speaker presentations from the conference, along with online audio of the main hall speeches, powerpoint presentations, abstracts and biographies...

Speakers listed alphabetically:
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Key: = View powerpoint presentation online, = Listen to speeches online

Shade Agboola, Research Associate, School of Community Health Sciences, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, UK
Relapse prevention in UK stop smoking services

Amanda Amos, Professor & Head of Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
Achieving smoke-free homes - key debates
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Smoke-free legislation, quitting and consumption: implications for smoking cessation

Michael E. Anders, Associate Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA
Treating tobacco use in lower-income, minority emergency department patients

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

Jane Anderson, Graphic designer, South Birmingham PCT, UK
Buzzin: A smoking education programme for young people

Miriam Armstrong, Pharmacy Health Link, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Chair: Varenicline: adherence, delayed quitting and psychiatric events
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Chair: New Developments in smoking cessation: what the future holds

Deborah Arnott, Director, Action on Smoking & Health (ASH), London, UK
Chair: Smoking in institutions: a global perspective

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

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

Linda Bauld, Reader in Social Policy, University of Bath and UK Centre for Tobacco Control
Smoking in pregnancy: what midwives do and what women say
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Comparing models of smoking treatment in Glasgow

Rachna Begh, Research Associate, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham, UK
Trial of community outreach smoking cessation workers

Miriam Bell, Roy Castle Fag Ends Liverpool Service Manager, The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, Liverpool, UK
Using direct marketing with relapsed quitters

Vivian Binnie, Lecturer, University of Glasgow Dental School, UK
A qualitative study of patients’ views of a secondary care smoking cessation service

Alex Bobak, GP, Wandsworth PCT, London, UK
Smokefree central (Pfizer symposium)

Nicolas Bonnet, Public Health Pharmacist, RHST, Paris, France
Effectiveness of smoking ban implementation in the psychiatric services in France

Jenny Bowman, Associate Professor, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Psychologists and smoking cessation intervention: unrealised potential
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Smoking cessation for Australian methadone clients

Joan Braithwaite, Stop Smoking Adviser in Pregnancy & Service Coordinator, Central Lancashire PCT, UK
Midwives using a positive consent model for referral

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

Alison Cameron, Service User Governor, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, UK
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

Emma Croghan, Consultant, Encouraging Lifestyle Change, Isle of Man
Smoke free prisons – the island experience
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Telephone based stop smoking services - are they worth it?

Steve Crone, Chief Executive, QUIT, London, UK
Chair: Tackling inequalities: findings and recommendations from a mapping exercise
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Chair: Service models

Helen Deaton, Stop Smoking Service Programme Manager, Greenwich PCT, London, UK
Using football to encourage the uptake of stop smoking services in socially deprived areas

Ernst Doets, Psychologist, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Smoking cessation in Denmark

Wendy Dudley, Specialist Midwife, Smoking Cessation, University Hospital North Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent, UK
Smoking in pregnancy: view from the front line & practical lessons from a social marketing initiative

Linda Durgan, All Wales Smoking Cessation Service
Chair: Direct marketing
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Chair: Smoke free homes, and young people

Barrie Dwyer, Project Manager, GMFA, London, UK
Gay men and smoking – not giving up

Emma Everson, Research Fellow, School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, UK
Promotion of physical activity as a cessation aid by NHS stop smoking advisors

Lisa Fendall, Manager, Smokefree Training, Doncaster Local Stop Smoking Services, UK
Smokefree central (Pfizer symposium)

Janet Ferguson, Research Associate, University of Bath, UK
Comparing models of smoking treatment in Glasgow

David Gonzales, Senior Researcher and Co-Director, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Delayed quitting, lapse recovery and long-term outcomes for quitters taking varenicline, bupropion & placebo

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

Jenny Hagues, School Nurse Lead, South Birmingham PCT, UK
Buzzin: A smoking education programme for young people

Peter Hajek, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK
High Dose NRT : Optimising effective usage (McNeil symposium)

Sally Haw, Principal Public Health Advisor, Health Scotland, UK
The effects of smokefree legislation: the Scottish experience

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

John Hughes, Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Family Practice, University of Vermont, USA
Making best use of NRT
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High Dose NRT : Optimising effective usage (McNeil symposium)
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New Developments in smoking cessation: what the future holds

Wee Lei Hum, Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Factors leading up to attending stop-smoking clinics in Malaysia

Rachna Kasliwal, Clinical Research Fellow, Drug Safety Research Unit, Southampton, UK
Psychiatric events reported in the varenicline prescription-event monitoring study

John Kemm, Director, West Midlands Public Health Observatory, Birmingham, UK
How monitoring can be used to improve service delivery

Sheena Kotecha, Senior House Officer Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham, UK
An audit to assess the smoking cessation activities of dental health professionals

Elspeth Lee, Head of Tobacco Control, Cancer Research UK
Chair: Out of the ordinary – clients who have oral lesions, opiate dependence and COPD

Scott Leischow, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University or Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, USA
Adherence to treatment with varenicline and associated abstinence outcomes

Susan MacAskill, Senior Researcher, CTCR, University of Stirling and the Open University, UK
Smoking cessation support services in pregnancy in Scotland: key lessons from a mapping exercise

Linda Marks, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Public Policy and Health, Durham University, UK
Tackling inequalities: findings and recommendations from a mapping exercise

Gerry McElwee, ASH Northern Ireland
Chair: Practice development – dentistry, psychology, and gay men

Andy McEwen, Senior Research Nurse, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, UK
Chair; Hookah & oral tobacco use
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Chair: Neglected smokers?
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Smoking Cessation Service Research Network (SCSRN) meeting

Kerry McKenzie, Health Improvement Programme Manager (Tobacco), NHS Health Scotland, UK
Marketing stop smoking services

Ann McNeill, Professor of Health Policy and Promotion, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, UK
Chair: Tackling smokers in pregnancy
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The effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions in disadvantaged areas

Hayden McRobbie, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Case study master class
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Conference highlights & implications for practice

Rachael Murray, Cancer Research UK Graduate Training Fellow, University of Nottingham, UK
The effect of proactively identifying smokers and offering smoking cessation support in primary care populations: a cluster-randomised trial

Felix Naughton, PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK
Why do so few pregnant smokers seek help from the Stop Smoking Services?

Bernie Neeson, Ulster Cancer Foundation, UK
Reaching “hard to reach” groups - case studies and discussion (Novartis symposium)
Case study 1: Working with Belfast communities

Lars Nielsen, Psychologist, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Smoking cessation for cancer patients - a question of quality of life

Christine Owens, Director of Tobacco Control,The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, Liverpool, UK
''Look after your lungs’ – a way to re-invigorate workplace smoking cessation?
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Using direct marketing with relapsed quitters

Jennifer Percival, Nursing Tobacco Policy Advisor, Royal College of Nursing, UK
Chair: Reaching “hard to reach” groups - case studies and discussion (Novartis symposium)
Case study 2: Working with BME and Polish Communities

The Rt Hon Dawn Primarolo MP, Minister of State for Public Health, UK
The future of stop smoking services within a modern NHS

Deborah Richardson, Principal Health Improvement Specialist, Stoke on Trent PCT, UK
Smoking in pregnancy: view from the front line & practical lessons from a social marketing initiative

Deborah Ritchie, Senior Lecturer and Head of Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK
One size fits all? An evaluation of the smokers ‘story’ of change in smoking cessation
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Smoke-free legislation, quitting and consumption: implications for smoking cessation

Jude Robinson, Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool, UK
A gendered exploration of smoking lives and smoking in the home in Scotland

Leena Sankla, Director, Cardio Wellness, Reading, UK
Use of oral tobacco by BME groups
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Using No Smoking Day to reach your ‘hard to reach’ smokers
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Reaching “hard to reach” groups - case studies and discussion (Novartis symposium)
Case study 2: Working with BME and Polish Communities

Vishnee Sauntoo, Campaign Manager, Smoking Day, London, UK
Using No Smoking Day to reach your ‘hard to reach’ smokers

Farooq Shah, Birmingham East and North PCT Stop Smoking Service, UK
Trial of community outreach smoking cessation workers

Hooman Sharifi, Research Fellow, Tobacco Prevention and Control Research Center (TPCRC), Tehran, Iran
How hookah is used in Tehran

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

Christine E. Sheffer, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA
Treating tobacco use in lower-income, minority emergency department patients

Pam Shields, Respiratory Nurse Consultant, Northern Hearts and Lungs Service, Victoria, Australia
Every breath I take: smoking cessation for clients with COPD

Rashmi Shukla, West Midlands Regional Director for Public Health, UK
Chair: day one

Bryan Stoten, Chair, NHS Confederation, UK
Chair: day two

Nicole Suares, Medical Student, University of Leeds, UK
An audit on NRT prescription for smoking cessation in primary care

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
Chair: Improving service delivery
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Going for gold - achieving quit success this year (GSK symposium)

Adrian Taylor, Professor, School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, UK
Promotion of physical activity as a cessation aid by NHS stop smoking advisors

Dan Tickle, Chief Executive, No Smoking Day, London, UK
Chair: Physical activity

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

Sophie Tuhey, Medical Student, University of Leeds, UK
An audit on NRT prescription for smoking cessation in primary care

Michael Ussher, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, St George's University of London, UK
Physical activity for smoking cessation during pregnancy
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Practical examples of exercises for clients

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

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
New smoking cessation guidelines for health professionals
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Chair: Stop smoking clinics: attendance, processes, and relapse prevention
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Chair: High Dose NRT : Optimising effective usage (McNeil symposium)
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Chair: Three key issues for the field
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A comparison of three measures of addiction to cigarettes: daily cigarette consumption, serum cotinine, and the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence

John Wiggers, Director, Hunter New England Population Health, New South Wales, Australia
Provision of comprehensive smoking cessation care to surgical patients in Australia: the case for routine clinical delivery
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Increasing the delivery of smoking cessation in Australian hospitals

Anna Winfield, Medical Student, University of Leeds, UK
An audit on NRT prescription for smoking cessation in primary care

Paula Wye, PhD Candidate, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Smoke-free policy & inpatient smoking care in Australian mental health services