The UK National Smoking Cessation Conference is the world's largest gathering of stop smoking practitioners, policy makers and researchers.

Presentations, workshops and debates cover all aspects of the policy and practice of helping smokers to stop. The conference is the leading forum for discussion of evidence based service delivery and community innovations.

All patient groups are covered, including pregnant smokers, young people, those with mental health problems, in secure environments, and hard to reach groups. Treatment modalities are also comprehensively addressed with presentations describing the state of the art on new medications, forthcoming treatments (like the nicotine vaccine), as well as researchers and practitioners presenting the latest on optimising existing treatments that are known to be effective, such as Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT), with results of work looking at combining products and ‘pre-loading’ prior to quitting.

Although smoking cessation is the main focus of the conference, tobacco control measures such as smoke free public places and harm reduction are also discussed, particularly in relation to how they impact on services helping people to stop smoking.