Data is required to be reported separately by the following smoking cessation service providers where the service exists:
Help Me Quit (HMQ) - Community
Help Me Quit (HMQ) - Pharmacy Level 3
Help Me Quit (HMQ) - Hospital Services
Help Me Quit (HMQ) for Baby
A Smoking Cessation Service provides evidence-based behavioural support and advice to smokers who are motivated to attempt to stop smoking. This includes the dedicated specialist national Help Me Quit Service, Level 3 smoking cessation services delivered in community pharmacies and any ‘in-house’ services which are available in hospitals and GP surgeries in Wales. All services should be provided in line with the Help Me Quit Minimum Standards.
The following are integral components of a smoking cessation service:
- Provide behavioural support
- Are an NHS supported service
- Dedicated time to deliver group and/ or 1:1 support which is:
o For a series of planned/scheduled sessions in which a target quit date is set and support provided throughout the quit attempt through multi-session, structured behavioural support
o Provided in conjunction with an offer of pharmacotherapy
o With follow-up of the client at one month post quit date with outcomes recorded.
Brief interventions are simple opportunistic advice and encouragement to stop smoking, which usually last for around 5 to 10 minutes, and are provided by a wide range of health professionals. This includes an assessment of the patient’s current commitment to attempt to quit, provision of information about the availability of pharmacotherapy and behavioural support, and referral to more intensive support from a smoking cessation service. Brief interventions are not classified as a smoking cessation service and are excluded from this data collection.