Support for quitting smoking within Manchester is provided by ‘Stop Smoking Intermediates’ i.e. people for whom helping others stop smoking is part of a larger role (e.g. pharmacy staff, midwives, GP practice staff). Manchester Stop Smoking Service runs regular training for new ‘Stop Smoking Intermediates’ covering areas such as building motivation, products available for supporting stop smoking and the benefits of becoming smokefree.

The training delivered by Manchester Stop Smoking Service is designed to support front line health and other staff to promote a smokefree future for the city.

The course aims to:

• Increase the number of people quitting smoking in Manchester and to raise confidence in engaging smokers on a more regular basis through the understanding and application of behaviour change models.
• Equip staff to support a quit attempt.
• Standardise and update knowledge and information on stop smoking interventions
• Contribute to the achievement of the Department of Health stop smoking and infant mortality targets
• Enable staff to comply with NICE guidelines

Target audience:
Frontline workers in health and other settings e.g. practice nurses, hospital nurses, pharmacy workers.

This course runs for one day and aims to:

• Equip participants with knowledge and skills to increase awareness of importance of protecting children and young people from tobacco smoke.
• Change attitudes to smoking in the presence of children and young people
• Increase number of smokefree homes, vehicles and registrations on Manchester Smokefree Homes Scheme.
• Reduce frequency of smoking in presence of children to reduce negative effect of peer role models.

Target audience:
Frontline workers and volunteers in health, Social Care Setting, i.e. maternity staff, NHS Manchester staff, children’s centre staff and third sector workers.

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