Award of Smoking Cessation Support Service to ABL Health Ltd by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

About

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council awarded a contract to ABL Health Ltd for the provision of a Smoking Cessation Support Service.

The service operates as a preventative and clinical programme focused on behaviour change, aiming to enhance health and wellbeing, improve physical and psychological quality of life, and reduce the risk of disease and illness in individuals, families, and communities.

The service prioritises the needs of smokers in the population who need it most and includes two main elements: a specialist service for cessation of smoking covering all pharmacological and behavioural support intervention delivery management as well as brief advice and smoking cessation training to stakeholders, delivered across the system to involve organisations, settings, and groups encountering populations with a high prevalence of smokers; and a self-help option for cessation of smoking directed at those already inclined to quit and with necessary access and resources, accessed by smokers not interested in conventional face-to-face or telephone support, with behavioural support delivered through digital means including regular motivational messages that can track progress, and management of pharmacological needs if required.

Where appropriate, vape supply and support is ensured across both elements towards a harm reduction approach.