Smoking and tobacco

NICE Pathways

Interactive topic-based flowcharts that allow you to navigate our recommendations on any subject. Find out more about NICE Pathways.

• Cardiovascular disease: identifying and supporting people most at risk of dying early

• Dementia, disability and frailty in later life: mid-life approaches to delay or prevent onset

• Smokeless tobacco cessation: South Asian communities

• Smoking

• Smoking cessation in secondary care

• Smoking: tobacco harm-reduction approaches

NICE guidelines

Evidence-based recommendations on a range of health and care topics. Find out more about NICE guidelines

• Cardiovascular disease: identifying and supporting people most at risk of dying early (PH15)

  Id:

  PH15

  Published date:

  September 2008

• Dementia, disability and frailty in later life – mid-life approaches to delay or prevent onset (NG16)

  Id:

  NG16

  Published date:

  October 2015

• Smokeless tobacco: South Asian communities (PH39)

  Id:

  PH39

  Published date:

  September 2012

• Smoking prevention in schools (PH23)

  Id:

  PH23

  Published date:

  February 2010

• Smoking: acute, maternity and mental health services (PH48)

  Id:

  PH48

  Published date:

  November 2013

• Smoking: harm reduction (PH45)

  Id:

  PH45

  Published date:

  June 2013

• Smoking: preventing uptake in children and young people (PH14)

  Id:

  PH14

  Published date:

  July 2008

• Smoking: stopping in pregnancy and after childbirth (PH26)

  Id:

  PH26

  Published date:

  June 2010

• Smoking: workplace interventions (PH5)

  Id:

  PH5

  Published date:

  April 2007

• Stop smoking interventions and services (NG92)

  New

  Yes

  Id:

  NG92

  Published date:

  March 2018

Quality standards

Statements covering priority areas for quality improvement (including ways to measure quality). Find out more about Quality standards.

• Smoking: harm reduction (QS92)

  Id:

  QS92

  Published date:

  July 2015

• Smoking: reducing and preventing tobacco use (QS82)

  Id:

  QS82

  Published date:

  March 2015

• Smoking: supporting people to stop (QS43)

  Id:

  QS43

  Published date:

  August 2013

Technology appraisal guidance

Assessments of the clinical and cost effectiveness of health technologies (most commonly medicines, but also medical devices, procedures and diagnostic techniques). Find out more about Technology appraisals guidance.

• Varenicline for smoking cessation (TA123)

  Id:

  TA123

  Published date:

  July 2007

In development

• Tobacco update

  New

  Yes

  Programme:

  NICE guideline

  Expected publication date:

  January 2020

New guidance and advice

Guidance and advice added since December 2017

• Stop smoking interventions and services (NG92)

  New

  Yes

  Id:

  NG92

  Programme:

  NICE guideline

  Published date:

  March 2018

• Tobacco update

  New

  Yes

  Programme:

  NICE guideline

  Expected publication date:

  January 2020

  Status:

  In development

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Putting guidance into practice

Shared learning

Examples of how our guidance and standards have been put into practice in the NHS, local authorities, voluntary sector and a range of other organisations.

Showing 3 of 18 shared learning examples for this topic:

• No ifs, No butts; Clatterbridge’s Journey to a smoke free trust (using NICE guidance as a road map and a partnership approach as the vehicle)

  Published date:

  June 2018

• Transforming the care of children and young people in London with asthma

  Published date:

  September 2017

• Innovative ways to support smokers requiring nicotine management in a mental health organisation

  Published date:

  January 2017

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