Tobacco Dependency

Smoking is one of the biggest causes of death and illness in the UK. Every year, around 76,000 people in the UK die from smoking, with many more living with debilitating smoking-related illnesses. (NHS England)

We support clinicians working in NHS services to improve tobacco dependence treatment. We do this by:

• supporting a network of respiratory clinical leads who are interested in leading their hospital's tobacco dependence treatment programme.
• providing tobacco dependency resources to healthcare professionals.
• using our national audit platform to support the data collection and supporting QI projects.

Position statement on Tobacco and Vaping 

The BTS position statement on Tobacco and Vaping outlines our views on tobacco and vaping and demonstrates how we apply these principles across the Society. The position statement is available in the downloads section below.

Tobacco dependency projects

We ran a Tobacco Dependency Project with NHS England for several years, which created a range of resources, including videos and case studies, hosted on the Respiratory Futures website. We also ran a successful Quality Improvement project for Tobacco Dependency Treatment.