Research reports

No Smoking Day 2006
No Smoking Day (NSD) is a UK-wide campaign to help people who want to stop smoking. It aims to encourage and assist smokers who want to quit and to generally raise awareness of quitting. NHS Health Scotland commissioned TNS System Three to carry out research across Scotland to measure awareness and impact of No Smoking Day 2006 and the advertising and publicity for it, among smokers and those who have recently stopped. Interviews were conducted with adults aged 16+ who smoke or who have stopped smoking in the 6 weeks prior to fieldwork. Quotas were set on sex, age (16-34, 35-54, 55+) and social class (ABC1 vs C2DE), in line with the profile of smokers in Scotland, as established in previous studies.
External evaluation of the NHS / ASH Scotland Young People and Smoking Cessation Pilot Programme
Reducing smoking among young people is a key policy objective of the Scottish Executive. One of the main elements of the Executive’s tobacco control strategy has been the provision of extra funding to Health Boards to develop local smoking cessation services. Young people, along with pregnant women and low income smokers, have been identified as one of the three key target groups. However, there has been relatively little research on smoking cessation in adolescents and young adults to inform the development of these services. In April 2002 NHS Health Scotland and ASH Scotland funded a major programme of eight pilot cessation project projects, which aimed to engage with young people who wanted to quit smoking and to identify acceptable and potentially effective approaches to help them quit. Settings included a youth offender institution; formal and informal youth venues; a hospital maternity service; college, school and community venues; and the world wide web.
Smoking Cessation Pilot Project Final Report
Reducing smoking among young people is a key policy objective of the Scottish Executive. One of the main elements of the Executive’s tobacco control strategy has been the provision of extra funding to Health Boards to develop local smoking cessation services. Young people, along with pregnant women and low income smokers, have been identified as one of the three key target groups. However, there has been relatively little research on smoking cessation in adolescents and young adults to inform the development of these services.