Services Database Smoking Cessation Service

Camden Health and Wellbeing Department, jointly with Islington, currently commissions
Central and North West London NHS Trust to deliver the community stop smoking service in
Camden and Islington, named Breathe – It’s about living. Responsibility for the local training
of stop smoking practitioners (Level 2 advisers), supporting and quality assuring smoking
cessation services in primary care and community pharmacies, data recording and reporting
of all smoking cessation activity to commissioners and NHS Digital, and achieving the annual
4-week quit target lies with this organisation.

Since April 2017, Breathe has operated a new three-tiered model that offers people who would
like to stop smoking the opportunity to access various levels of support suited to their lifestyle
and individual preferences. The service is ‘e-cigarette friendly’ and offers support to people
wishing to stop smoking with the help of self-purchased e-cigarettes.

• Pharmacists and others trained by Breathe Stop Smoking Service to supply NRT under this service and have been accredited in line with NCSCT, NICE and Fraser guidelines
• Has undertaken appropriate stop smoking practitioner training and has been approved to deliver interventions.