NICE Guidance on Smoking

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued the following guidance documents on smoking cessation:

Technology appraisal
• Varenicline for smoking cessation (2007) - pdf file

Public health intervention guidance
• Brief interventions and referral for smoking cessation (2006) - external page
• Guidance on preventing the uptake of smoking by children and young people (July 2008) - external page
• Workplace interventions to promote smoking cessation: Public health intervention guidance (2007) - external page
• School-based interventions to prevent smoking. (2010) - external page
• Quitting smoking in pregnancy and following childbirth. (2010) - external page

Public health programme guidance
• Smoking cessation services in primary care, pharmacies, local authorities and workplaces, particularly for manual working groups, pregnant women and hard to reach communities (February 2008) - external page

Publications on cost effectiveness of public health intervention guidance
• Preventing the uptake of smoking by children and young people: review of cost effectiveness (July 2008) - pdf file
• Cost-effectiveness of brief intervention and referral for smoking cessation (2006) - pdf file
• Cost-effectiveness of interventions for smoking cessation (2007) - pdf file
• Cost impact analysis of workplace-based interventions for smoking cessation: Sensitivity analysis of time lost due to smoking (2007) - pdf file