�Expenditure on NHS Stop Smoking Services was nearly �61 Million in 2007/08 -
closely �10 million more than in 2006/07 and about �36 million more than in
2001/02, a report by The NHS Information Centre reveals).
The report; Statistics on NHS Stop Smoking Services: England, April 2007 to
March 2008; is the first yearly report around NHS Stop Smoking Services
covering the period since the presentation of the smoking ban in England on
July 1 2007.
It shows the cost per quitter increased from �160 in 2006/07 to �173 in
2007/08. However, this is bring down than the 2001/02 figure of �206 per quitter.
A add together of 680,289 hoi polloi set a quit particular date through NHS Stop Smoking Services
in 2007/08 - 13 per cent more than in 2006/07 (600,410).
Of those in 2007/08, 52 per cent (350,800) had successfully quit by the quadruplet
week follow-up, a 10 per cent increase compared to 2006/07 (319,720).
The report also shows that in 2007/08:
- More women than men set a step down date (373,000 women compared to 307,289
men), but the success rate of quitting was slightly higher for work force than
women (53 per cent of men compared to 51 per penny of women).
- Success rates generally increased with age, from 38 per cent of those
aged below 18, to 60 per cent of those aged 60 and over.
- Of the 18,977 pregnant women world Health Organization set a quit day of the month, 52 per cent (9,817)
successfully quit.
Seventy per cent of those setting a quit date received Nicotine Replacement
Therapy (NRT) such as nicotine patches, gum tree or nasal spray. A further 14 per
cent of those quitting standard varenicline (Champix), which was the virtually
successful pharmacotherapy and helped 63 per cent of those world Health Organization received it
successfully discontinue.
Chief Executive of The NHS Information Centre, Tim Straughan, aforesaid: "Our
figures show the NHS is spending millions more pounds on NHS Stop Smoking
Services, patch thousands more smokers ar successfully kicking the habit."
The full report toilet be viewed at: hypertext transfer protocol://www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/sss0708
1.. The NHS Information Centre is England's authoritative, independent
reference of health and social care information. It kit and caboodle with more than ccc
health and social attention providers nationwide to provide the facts and figures
that help oneself the NHS and social services run effectively. Its role is to
take in data, analyze it and convert it into useful information which helps
providers improve their services and supports academics, researchers,
regulators and policymakers in their work.
2.. The NHS Information Centre also produces a wide range of statistical
publications each year across a number of areas including: primary charge,
health and lifestyles, screening, hospital maintenance, population and geography,
social care and workforce and pay statistics.
3.. Regional information is available from this publication.
4. This statistical reputation presents final results from the monitoring
of the NHS Stop Smoking Services for the period April 2007 to March 2008.
In 2007/08 new data items receive been added to the collection. Information is
now available for successful quitters by intervention option and ethnicity.
Also, this is the first base year that information on the manipulation of varenicline
(Champix) as a pharmacotherapy has been included. Some information has also
been provided in this report card in relation to smoke prevalence and attitudes
to smoking to help put these results into setting.
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