About Us
The UK National Smoking Cessation Conference is organised for the field by Exchange Supplies.
The conference speakers and presentations are independently selected by the programme directors Andy McEwen and Hayden McRobbie, the programme planning committee (whose members are listed below) and the conference partners (also
listed below).
Exchange Supplies is a social enterprise that was established to develop harm reduction responses to illicit drug use. As part of that mission we organise a national drug treatment conference and a national conference on injecting drug use.
With development of the field rather than profit as our primary aim, we are different from commercial conference organisers in that we are able to commit to running an annual conference for the forseeable future and invest the conference income in bringing the best possible speakers from around the world to speak to UK audiences, the best free online conference archive, quality venues, and professionally organised events.
We are an ISO 9001 accredited organisation, which means that we have a full set of independently audited proceedures designed to continually improve the conferences we organise. If you would like to give us any feedback, on either the website or the conference, please click here to send us a feedback form.
Exchange Supplies staff involved in organsing the conference:
Andrew Preston - conference organiser, MD Exchange Supplies (andrew@exchangesupplies.org)
Monique Tomlinson - speaker, sponsor and venue liaison (monique@exchangesupplies.org)
Helen Phillips - registration and reception coordinator (helen@exchangesupplies.org)
Belinda Cole - delegate registration (belinda@exchangesupplies.org)
Small Business Web Hosting - webmaster
Fluke Design - programmes/flyers conference graphic design
+ our reception and ushering staff on the day.
Conference planning group
Programme directors:
Andy McEwen, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London
(andy.mcewen@ucl.ac.uk)
and
Hayden McRobbie, Clinical Trials Research Unit, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand
(h.mcrobbie@ctru.auckland.ac.nz)
Programme committee:
Miriam Armstrong, Pharmacy Health Link, The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB);
Deborah Arnott, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH);
Steve Crone, QUIT;
Linda Durgan, All Wales Smoking Cessation Service;
Trish Grierson, Dumfries and Galloway Primary Care NHS Trust;
Peter Hajek, Tobacco Dependence Research & Treatment Centre, Barts and the London Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry;
Elspeth Lee, Behaviour Research and Tobacco Control, Cancer Research UK;
Gerry McElwee, ASH Northern Ireland;
Ann McNeill, University of Nottingham;
Chris Owens, British Association of Stop Smoking Practitioners (BASSP)
Lesley Owen, National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE);
Gay Sutherland, Maudsley Hospital Smoking Cessation Clinic;
Dan Tickle, No Smoking Day;
Robert West, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London.
Conference partners:
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH);
ASH Scotland;
ASH Wales;
ASH Northern Ireland;
Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence (ATTUD);
British Association of Stop Smoking Practitioners (BASSP);
British Medical Association;
Cancer Research UK;
No Smoking Day;
Pharmacy Health Link;
Pip Mason Consultancy;
QUIT;
Royal College of Nursing;
Society for the Study of Addiction
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