Tackling Tobacco Conference

 

Tackling Tobacco: new perspectives – innovation and practice.

This event took place on Tuesday 25th September 2012 at the Leeds Met Hotel and was well received by the delegates in attendance.

Overview of event:

Tobacco control research has played a significant part in reducing the devastating impact and harm caused by tobacco, introducing indoor air laws, establishing cessation treatment or ensuring advertising bans, the development, adoption and implementation of research into practice has been critical to the progress made.

But what are the new ideas that can help us go further and faster and how do we translate these ideas into practice. This event presented an ambitious range of current tobacco related research and activities that all seek to provide new answers to today’s challenges. 

The span of the programme was wide, including changing social norms, prevention, helping people to quit smoking, and considers specific innovations with children and young people, pregnant women and South Asian Communities.  There was also an international dimension with work in Pakistan and Bangladesh being discussed.

Delegates had opportunities to share ideas, shape current approaches and debate how to turn innovation into practice – and improve health and reduce health inequalities. 

Attendees included:

• Researchers
• Policy makers
• Commissioners
• Front line workers

 

Feedback:

What is the most important thing you will take away from this conference?

"Some innovative ideas from Smoke Free Homes session and the need to avoid a one size all approach, we need to try different approaches as per the evidence."

"Behaviour change can be applied in the workplace to drive service improvements"

"Partnerships between NHS, Communities and Universities"

Any other comments on overall satisfaction with the conference?

"Excellent opportunity to share our effort to wider group of professionals".

 

Parallel Sessions

During the event delegates had the opportunity to attend 2 out of the 3 parallel sessions outlined below:

Session 1 - Help Smokers Quit

a: Behaviour change interventions to support tobacco use

b: Leeds Let's Change

c: Action to Stop Smoking in Suspected Tuberculosis (ASSIST) in Pakistan

Session 2 - Smokefree and Pregnancy

a: Mothers Learning About Second-hand Smoke (MLASS)

b:Supporting pregnant women to stay stopped throughout their pregnancy and beyond

c: Are mosques an acceptable and feasible setting for high quality health promotion interventions? Experience of the 'Smoke Free Homes' programme through Muslim faith leaders

Session 3 - Social Norms and Young People

a: Most people in the Yorkshire and Humber don't smoke - but what about Seacroft?

b: Social Norms Initiative to Prevent Smoking (SNIPS)

c: Long-term effects of implementation intentions on prevention of smoking uptake among adolescents

 

For full details of the parallel sessions including speakers, please click the parallel sessions download below.