Quitting in Mind: An online resource for smoke free mental health settings

Quitting in Mind is an online resource aimed at clinicians, researchers,  service users, and anyone with an interest in the area of smoking and mental health.

Commissioning Support for London commissioned Dr Lisa McNally of Smoke Free Minds to author Quitting in Mind.  It is endorsed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Faculty of Public Health. The resources section was produced in collaboration with the No Smoking Day organisation

Quitting in Mind collates current knowledge in this rapidly expanding area of work.  As part of this, it describes a new 'Four Dimensional' treatment framework that brings together a range of evidence-based intervention elements into one, coherent approach.

It is supplemented by a range of resources, including posters, leaflets and training presentations.

Quitting in Mind has also received the ongoing support of Professor Louis Appleby, the UK Government's National Director for Mental Health.

Smoke Fee Legislation: 1st July 2008

On 1 July 2008, in accordance with new smoke free legislation, all mental health units, including residential settings (wards), were made smoke-free. The NHS agreed the new smoke free legislation will cover buildings on NHS service sites.

To support implementation of the new smoking legislation in July 2008, we commissioned Smoke Free Minds to provide (level 3) training to Mental Health Trusts. The training enabled trainees who completed the course to train other staff in the delivery quit smoking interventions; training was carried out throughout 2008.