Health Professionals

Smoking Cessation Update 2007
This paper updates on guidance and recent developments since the Smoking Cessation Guidelines for Scotland: 2004 Update (NHS Health Scotland and ASH Scotland 2004). Developments that are expected to give guidance within the next year are also included.
Towards a Future Without Tobacco
This report makes a comprehensive series of recommendations intended to protect and dissuade all young people in Scotland from starting to smoke and to deter adults, individually and collectively, from encouraging or enabling them to smoke.
Tobacco Facts: A resource pack for upper primary school teachers
The Tobacco Facts was developed to offer an up-to-date resource on tobacco education for teachers. The pack includes a planning grid for teachers with factsheets and suggested classoom activities.
Smoking Cessation Guidelines for Scotland: 2004 Update
This document was commissioned by Health Scotland and ASH Scotland to take account of the experience of the first few years of delivering these services, and recent developments in the evidence base in smoking cessation. It replaces the document Smoking Cessation Guidelines for Scotland published in 2000. This updated document makes recommendations for the organisation and implementation of clinical interventions to promote smoking cessation in Scotland. It is intended for the use of health professionals and health planners at all levels. It provides a blueprint for the development of systems for ensuring that all health professionals are able to play an effective role.
Workplace Smoking Policies in Scotland
NHS Health Scotland commissioned BMRB Social Research to conduct a study of workplace smoking policies in Scotland in 2004 on behalf of the Scottish Executive. The study involved two stages: a quantitative survey, using telephone interviews, of those responsible for developing and implementing smoking policies in 1600 workplaces in Scotland; followed by qualitative research with managers and staff in 17 of the workplaces that had taken part in the survey. Fieldwork for the survey took place from 19th Jan to 30th April 2004; and the in-depth interviews were undertaken in June 2004.
Encouraging smokers to stop: what you can do - Flow chart
The first page of this document contains a flow chart that shows the pathway a professional can follow in raising the subject of smoking with patients, establishing if they are interested in stopping and then pointing them to the most effective help available. On the second page there is a chart showing FEV1 decline in smokers and non-smokers. It can be used to show smokers graphically one effect of smoking and the benefit of stopping. It broadly reflects what happens to overall risk of smoking-related disease when smokers stop.
Encouraging smokers to stop: what you can do
Description: This guide is for all health professionals who see smokers during the course of their work. The guide is based on systematic reviews of the evidence, outlined in the Smoking Cessation Guidelines for Scotland: 2004 Update, published by Health Scotland and ASH Scotland and available at www.healthscotland.com/tobacco. Any treatments not mentioned in this guide either have insufficient evidence of effectiveness, or are not regarded as first-line treatments.
Reducing smoking and tobacco-related harm: a key to transforming Scotland's health
Description: Report which examines the current smoking trends in Scotland, summarises the evidence on smoking and tobacco-related harm, consider prevention control and treatment policies, and recommend future action that should be taken in Scotland.