Latest Updates
Carbon Monoxide Monitoring
- For updated guidance reinstating Carbon Monoxide monitoring within the Quit Your Way pharmacy service, please refer to:
- Bulletin No.8 – CO Monitoring for Quit Your Way Pharmacy Service
- Bulletin No.9 – CO Risk Assessment
- Updated CO Monitoring Risk Assessment (v3.3 October 2023)
- Standard Operating Guidance for CO Monitoring (January 2024)
Clinically Significant Drug Interactions
- For resources on clinically significant drug interactions with tobacco smoking, including pharmacy to GP template letter, please refer to Bulletin No.14 – SPS Clinical Drug Interactions in Smoking (November 2023).
QuickMist Mouthspray
- For updates on QuickMist Mouthspray trial, please refer to Bulletin No.31 – Nicorette QuickMist Mouthspray Briefing.
Face-to-Face Training
- For details on face-to-face training for the Smoking Cessation Service, please click here or contact the Pharmacy Smoking Cessation Team using the contact details further down this page.
Smoking Cessation Service
Full details of the service and further online training (including PCR webcast training) can be found here.
Full information on PCR, including a User Guide for the most up-to-date version of PCR, can be found here.
The latest NES/TURAS online training and online accreditation are available here.
The interactive NHS Scotland Smoking Cessation Service module aims to:
- support pharmacy teams in delivering an effective smoking cessation service.
- update pharmacy teams on developments in smoking cessation, including updated evidence on the use of varenicline and comparative success that can be achieved with different pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation.
The MCQ Assessment: smoking cessation (MCQ1) assessment is for all pharmacy staff. Pharmacists should complete this to deliver the service.
Registration with Turas/NES is free to all health workers. Approximate time of completion of both is 1-2 hours.
- For updated Zyban resources – including CP to GP Letter template, see Zyban Bulletin (December 2023).
Smoking Cessation Guidelines for Community Pharmacy
This is a comprehensive resource that can be found here and includes:
- Smoking Cessation service outline and practice reminders, including payment details and training requirements
- Quit Your Way Community, Hospital, Pregnancy, Mental Health service details
- Pharmacotherapy guidance
- Clinical resources including adverse effects related to smoking cessation, Specialist Pharmacy Service clinically significant drug interactions with tobacco smoking, epilepsy and clozapine guidance
- Pharmacy Care Record (PCR) smoking cessation guidance
- Carbon Monoxide (CO) monitoring and related resource guidance
- Client recruitment, journey and follow up guidance
- Cigarette equivalents for tobacco users and e-cigarette guidance
- Useful contacts and resources including formulary, forms & free promotional material/CO monitor.
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Further Resources – click on links below to download or print
- Varenicline Clinical Risk Assessment Form
- Varenicline GP Referral and Information Letter
- Varenicline PGD v5
- Smoking Cessation Data Collection Form
Smoking Cessation Resources
Click here to download and print 4, 8 and 12 week Quit Your Way client completion certificates.
To order further resources such as those below, please complete the order form or contact us (as shown below).
How to Contact the Pharmacy Smoking Cessation Team
If you have any queries regarding provision of the service, or would like to order resources please contact us at:
Pharmacy Smoking Cessation Team
NHSGGC
Gartnavel Hospital
West House, Ground Floor
Great Western Road
GLASGOW
G12 0XH
Tel: 0141 201 4945
Email: ggc.pharmacyhit@nhs.scot
Do you have a Smoking Cessation query? Click here for answers to some of the most common Smoking Cessation frequently asked questions.
Responsible Person: Hilary Millar/Laura Davis
Last Updated: 26/11/2024