Stop smoking services need good referral routes. Instead, most smokers use the quitting methods with the least evidence of effectiveness. Around 450,000 people set a quit date through stop smoking services from April 2014 to March 2015. However, the number of people using these services is falling.
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They are up to 4 times more effective than no help or over the counter nicotine replacement therapy ( NRT). Local stop smoking services offer the best chance of success. To improve their chances of quitting, all smokers need: The Local Tobacco Control Profiles for England provide a snapshot of the extent of tobacco use, tobacco-related harm and measures being taken to reduce this harm at local level. At the time of their babies’ birth, over 1 in 4 pregnant women are recorded as smokers in Blackpool, but fewer than 2 in 100 in the London Borough of Westminster.
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Smoking in pregnancy increases the risks of miscarriage, stillbirth or having a sick baby, and is a major cause of child health inequalities. There are relatively high smoking levels among certain demographic groups, including Bangladeshi, Irish and Pakistani men and among Irish and Black Caribbean women.
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Smoking is twice as common in people with longstanding mental health problems. Men and women from the most deprived groups have more than double the death rate from lung cancer compared with those from the least deprived. Smoking is increasingly concentrated in more disadvantaged groups and is the main contributor to health inequalities in England. People in more deprived areas are more likely to smoke and are less likely to quit. Smoking and the harm it causes aren’t evenly distributed.