Smoking Cessation In Mental Health

Venue: Hallam Conference Centre
44 Hallam Street
London
W1W 6JJ

Date: 23 May 2014

Synopsis: This conference which features a number of extended interactive sessions will provide a practical guide to smoking cessation in mental health, ensuring your service effectively supports people with mental illness to stop smoking and does so within a smoke free environment.

Details:

Smoking is extremely common in people with mental disorders, causing major reductions in life expectancy and quality of life, exacerbating poverty and presenting major economic costs to the NHS and wider society…Smoking is around twice as common among people with mental disorders, and more so in those with more severe disease.”

Smoking and Mental Health, Royal College of Psychiatrists & Royal College of Physicians 2013

“ It is astonishing that people with severe mental illness are in some cases 3 or 4 times more likely to die prematurely from the ‘big killer’ diseases, when compared to the population as a whole… Thousands of people with mental illness die prematurely every year, and as the report notes, differences in life expectancy for people with severe mental illness, when compared to the population as a whole, are truly shocking. Many of these lives could be saved by improving access to universal population health services for people with mental illness.”

Norman Lamb MP, Minister for Care Services, June 2013

“Much of the substantially lower life expectancy of people with mental disorders relates to smoking”

Royal College of Psychiatrists & Royal College of Physicians 2013

“Addressing the high prevalence of smoking in people with mental disorders offers the potential to realise substantial cost savings to the NHS, as well as benefits in quantity and quality of life”

Smoking and Mental Health, Royal College of Psychiatrists & Royal College of Physicians 2013

“NICE are going to tell us that inpatient units should be smoke free”

Dr Shubulade Smith, Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, & Commissioner, The Schizophrenia Commission

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URL:
http://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/smoking-cessation-in-mental-health

Contact:
Kerry Tarrant Healthcare Conferences UK 01932 429933 020 8181 6491 (fax) kerry@hc-uk.org.uk