Publication, Part of Statistics on Local Stop Smoking Services in England
Statistics on Local Stop Smoking Services in England, April 2024 to December 2024 (Q3)
Official statistics
Changes to the Stop Smoking Service collection
From the 2024/25 publication, a number of changes have been made to the data that is collected for Local Stop Smoking Services. These include the addition of categories within gender identity and sexual orientation, and changes to breakdowns for categories such as intervention type.
Further information can be found in the coherence and comparability section of the data quality statement.
Information can also be found in the Stop Smoking Services methodological change notice.
From the Q2 publication onwards, two new tables have been added to the Excel data tables. These are:
Table 1.8: Breakdown by sexual orientation
Table 2.8: Quit outcomes for the national Swap to Stop scheme
These breakdowns are also provided within the accompanying csv files.
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Summary
Local Stop Smoking Services offer support to help people quit smoking. This can include support through one-to-one or group interventions, either in-person or remotely. The support is designed to help smokers to quit in order to reduce health inequalities, particularly in areas where rates of smoking are higher than the general population. The services should be accessible in the local community and are provided by trained personnel, such as specialist smoking cessation advisors, trained clinical staff and pharmacists.
This report includes information on the number of people setting a quit date and the number who successfully quit at the 4 week follow-up. It also presents in-depth analyses of the key measures of the service including breakdowns by age, ethnic group, socio-economic classification, type of stop-smoking aids used in the quit attempt, as well as spend on services. The results are provided at national, regional, and local authority levels.
Data covering Quarters 1 and 2 is based on re-submitted data.
Key Facts
Data submitted up to Q3 2024/25 shows there were 162,655 attempts to quit smoking using stop smoking services (SSS)
Of these, 87,433 (53.8%) people successfully quit based on self-reported outcomes.
224,098 referrals up to Q3 2024/25 into SSS were made and 72.6% of these referrals led to a quit attempt
86,242 (53.0%) people setting a quit date up to Q3 2024/25 were eligible for free prescriptions
54.7% had successfully quit based on self-reported outcomes
Routine and manual occupations were the most engaged socio-economic group accounting for 35,559 (21.9% of all quit attempts) up to Q3 2024/25.
Combination of nicotine replacement therapies was the most popular stop smoking aid used in quit attempts up to Q3 2024/25
Accounting for 57,019 (35.1% of all) quit attempts and achieving a 53.6% success rate.
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