Services Database Stop4life Stop Smoking Service in Pregnancy (Telford & Wrekin Area)

The core elements of the service are:

• the provision of behavioural support and pharmacotherapy delivered via a time-limited intervention to support people who smoke to successfully and permanently stop smoking;
• progress is assessed after 4 weeks and success is assessed after 12 weeks or delivery date, whichever is later;
• interventions are delivered by a stop smoking advisor, who has received stop smoking service training for one-to-one and/or group support and full NCSCT training;
• accredited staff will offer stop smoking services to current smokers of a tobacco product providing one to one or group support and advice to clients who wish to give up smoking;
• all interventions should be multi-sessional with a total potential Service User contact time of at least 1.5 hours (from pre-quit preparation to four weeks after quitting). This will ensure effective monitoring, Service User compliance and ongoing access to medication;
• the sub-contractor shall use CO monitoring to verify the smoking status of service users at 4 weeks, 12 weeks and at delivery. Service users smoking status will also be verified by 6 months after setting a quit date by Stop4Life; and
• interventions should offer weekly support for at least the first four weeks following the quit date.

All staff involve in the delivery of the service must have completed NCSCT certification and have attended local training to deliver smoking interventions.