This guideline covers helping people to stop smoking in acute, maternity and mental health services. It promotes smokefree policies and services and recommends effective ways to help people stop smoking or to abstain from smoking while using or working in secondary care settings.
We checked the recommendations in this guideline in March 2017 and it will be amalgamated by the committee into a single tobacco guideline which combines the tobacco suite of guidelines.
This guideline partially updates NICE guideline PH10 (published February 2008).
This guideline was previously called smoking cessation in secondary care: acute, maternity and mental health services.