Publication, Part of Statistics on Local Stop Smoking Services in England
Statistics on Local Stop Smoking Services in England, April 2024 to June 2024 (Q1)
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. These changes will impact publications from Quarter 1 of the 2024/25 financial year onwards.
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.
14 November 2024 09:30 AM
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.
Key Facts
57.2% of people successfully quit (self-reported)
Of 42,204 people setting a quit date, 24,154 were successful
Quitting success (self-reported) increased with age
51.1% of those aged under 18 were successful, compared to 58.7% of those aged 60 and over
49.7% of the pregnant women who set a quit date successfully quit
Of 1,411 pregnant women setting a quit date, 701 were successful
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