Now available on the NICE website.

This quality standard covers support and treatment to stop smoking and stop using smokeless tobacco, and harm-reduction approaches for people who are not ready to stop in one go. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.

In December 2022, this quality standard updated and replaced the quality standards on smoking: supporting people to stop (published August 2013) and smoking: harm reduction (published July 2015). The topics were identified for update following the annual review of quality standards. The review identified:

• updated guidance on tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence and
• that the quality standards on smoking: supporting people to stop and smoking: harm reduction should be combined.

For more information follow the link: NICE Tobacco: treating dependence 

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