The Evidence to Inform Stop Smoking Service Design: How to Focus on Priority Groups

The session is introduced by Sterling Rippy, Senior Public Health Strategist at the London Borough of Hounslow, where she leads on behaviour change and population health management, who is also Chair of the Behvavioural Science and Public Health Network London Hub.  

Following our presentation with Emeritus Professor Robert West on “Maximising the Impact of the Additional Funding for Stop Smoking Services”, the LTA and BSPHN asked London leads which further topics on this area they wanted to hear more information on, and the number one topic people wanted to hear about was the evidence around informing service design supporting priority populations. 

Our speakers include: 

1. Introductions  

Sterling Rippy, Chair of the London Hub, Behavioural Science Public Health Network and Emma Barry, Programme Manager, London Tobacco Alliance and Stop Smoking London.  

2. Examples from East London Stop Smoking Services (start) 

Shamsia Begum Foreman, Specialist Stop Smoking Service Manager, and Janhvi Manohar, Stop Smoking Practitioner, Queen Mary University of London ​ 

3. Developing Effective Messaging for Smoking and Vaping Related Behaviour Change: Increasing Motivation in Entrenched Smokers (33m 45s) 

Zainab Hairder, UKRI intern at OHID and a PhD student, University of Leeds​ 

4. Increasing chances of stopping smoking: what is the evidence? (45m 55s) 

Dr. Jamie Hartmaan-Boyce – Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst​ 

5. Q&As ​(1h 6m 35s)