Don’t Wait – resources

Smoking worsens winter pressures on the NHS. Tobacco smoking not only causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, COPD and dementia – but during the winter when demand on the NHS is at its highest, smokers suffer more severely from respiratory viruses such as flu and conditions such as COPD.

Partners across the NHS and public health are proactively involved in front-line work and communications to minimise harm and risk from cold weather and seasonal respiratory illness.

This toolkit is aimed at helping partners to raise the topic of smoking and support the work of the Tobacco Dependency Treatment Services within Trusts and community stop smoking services to provide generic quitting resources with key smoking-related conditions referenced.