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| 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 Heather Thomson, the programme planning committee (whose members are listed below) and the conference partners (also listed below). 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. Contact us For general enquiries about the conference, call the conference organisers Exchange Supplies on 01305 262244, or email updates@uknscc.org. For sponsorship and exhibition enquiries, call Monique Tomlinson on 020 8269 0662. Conference planning group Programme directors: Andy McEwen, Executive Director, NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation & Training (NCSCT) and Heather Thomson, Health Improvement Manager, Directorate of Public Health, Leeds Primary Care Trust Programme committee: Miriam Armstrong, PharmacyHealthLink; Deborah Arnott, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH); Linda Durgan, All Wales Smoking Cessation Service; Trish Grierson, Dumfries and Galloway Primary Care NHS Trust; Peter Hajek, Tobacco Dependence Research and Treatment Centre, Barts and the London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry; John Hughes, Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Family Practice, University of Vermont, USA; 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); David Robertson, Ash Scotland Alliances Manager; Gay Sutherland, Maudsley Hospital Smoking Cessation Clinic; Robert West, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London. Supporting organisations: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH); ASH Northern Ireland; ASH Scotland; ASH Wales; Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence (ATTUD); British Association of Stop Smoking Practitioners (BASSP); British Heart Foundation; British Medical Association (BMA); British Lung Foundation; Cancer Research UK; Cardio Wellness; Journal of Smoking Cessation; No Smoking Day; Pharmacy Health Link; Pip Mason Consultancy; QUIT; Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation; Royal College of Nursing; Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH); Smoking Cessation Service Research Network (SCSRN); Society for the Study of Addiction; The Stroke Association. More about Exchange Supplies Exchange Supplies is a social enterprise that was established to develop harm reduction responses to illicit drug use. | |
