Tobacco

The objective of the North Tyneside Smokefree Alliance Delivery Plan is to establish a smokefree generation where the overall adult smoking prevalence is lower than 5%, by 2025.

In order to achieve a smoke free generation, the following targets have been set in the All-Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health.

Recommendations for the Tobacco Control Plan 2021:

• Smoking in Adults to fall from 12.7% in 2022 to 9.1% (n=15,149) by 2025
• Smoking among routine and manual workers to fall from 22.5% in 2022 to 13.3% by 2025
• Smoking in those with a long-term mental health condition to fall from 25.2% in 2021/22 to 15.4% in 2025
• Reduce smoking in pregnancy from 9.1% in 2021/22 at time of delivery to 5% or less by 2025
• Reduce smoking among 15-year-olds from 11.4% in 2018 to 7.7% by 2025

The NHS Long Term Plan identifies that one-size-fits-all statutory services have often failed to engage with the people most in need, leading to inequalities in access and outcome. The plan makes it clear that the NHS needs to play a greater role in upstream prevention, and the treatment of tobacco dependency in both primary and secondary care settings is essential in preventing avoidable illness.

Specific commitments set-out in the NHS Long Term Plan include that by 2023/24, all people admitted to hospital that smoke will be offered NHSfunded tobacco treatment services. These services will also be adapted for expectant mothers, and their partners, with a new smoke free pregnancy pathway including access to focused sessions and treatments. NHS-funded tobacco treatment services will also be available as part of specialist mental health services for long-term users of specialist mental health, and in learning disability services. This will include the option to switch to ecigarettes in inpatient settings.