Ensure awareness and implementation of NICE guidance/ quality standards
Behaviour change: individual approaches (PH49). This guideline covers changing behavioural risk factors of people aged 16 and over using interventions such as goal setting and planning, feedback and monitoring, and social support. It aims to help tackle a range of behaviours.
Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence (NG209). This guideline covers support to stop smoking and help to reduce people's harm from smoking if they are not ready to stop in one go. It also covers ways to prevent children, young people and young adults from taking up smoking.
Smoking: supporting people to stop (QS43). This quality standard covers support for people to stop smoking. It includes referral to stop smoking services and treatments to help people to stop smoking. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
Smoking: harm reduction (QS92). This quality standard covers ways of reducing harm from smoking. It includes advice on supporting people who do not want to give up smoking in one step. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
Smoking: reducing and preventing tobacco use (QS82). This quality standard covers reducing and preventing tobacco use in adults, young people and children. It includes interventions to discourage people from taking up smoking, tobacco control strategies and smoke free policies. It is particularly relevant to local authorities, schools and colleges, employers and NHS service providers. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.