Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence

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This guideline covers support to stop smoking for everyone aged 12 and over, and help to reduce people's harm from smoking if they are not ready to stop in one go. It also covers ways to prevent children, young people and young adults aged 24 and under from taking up smoking.

Who is it for?:

1. Commissioners and providers of stop-smoking interventions and support, including those in the voluntary and community sectors

2. Commissioners and providers of interventions and support for preventing uptake of smoking

3. Health and social care professionals, including clinical leads in secondary care services and managers of clinical services

4. People working in local authorities, education and the wider public, private, voluntary and community sectors

5. Those commissioning, planning and delivering mass-media campaigns

6. People with a remit to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people aged 24 and under; this includes those working in the NHS, local authorities and tobacco control alliances

7. Retailers of tobacco products

8. Employers, estate managers and other managers

9. Employee and trade union representatives

It may also be relevant for:

1. Researchers and policy makers

2. Manufacturers and retailers of medicinally licensed nicotine-containing products and nicotine-containing e-cigarettes

3. Members of the public, including:

   1. –

      children, young people, their parents and carers

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      people using health and social care services, and their families and carers

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      women, trans men and non-binary people who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, or who have a child aged up to 12 months, and their families and carers

   4. –

      people over 16 who smoke and are in paid or voluntary employment