Smoking Cessation - how you can support your patients | Lung Cancer Nursing UK

Smoking Cessation - how you can support your patients

Thursday 28th November, 18:00 - 19:00

Smoking is a lifelong on-going addiction for about a third of the people we see in our lung cancer clinics. When faced with a potential lung cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment, many patients are willing to finally quit smoking but don't know how or are scared to try, and if they do try, they go 'cold turkey' because nobody offers them any help or medicines. Going 'cold turkey' usually leads to failure and is the least effective means of quitting.

Lung cancer nurses have a fantastic opportunity to help patients quit once and for all, with some simple training and interventions which will have a major impact on pre-habilitation, treatment and survivorship. This webinar will help de-mystify smoking cessation and help you and LCNS teams feel more comfortable to address this addiction with patients and families.

Presented by Professor Sanjay Agrawal, all healthcare professionals are welcome to join this webinar and to participate in the Q&A session that will follow his presentation.

This webinar has been instigated and organised by LCNUK. The support from our corporate sponsors has allowed us to provide this valuable educational meeting free of charge to all delegates. Sponsors have had no input into the agenda or the selection of speakers.

Speaker(s)

  • Sanjay Agrawal

    Sanjay is a Consultant in Respiratory & Intensive Care Medicine in Leicester and the National Specialty Adviser to NHS England for Tobacco. For the past 15-20 years has been interested in stopping people getting lung cancer in the first place by identifying people who smoke and providing treatment for tobacco addiction whenever they are admitted to hospital. More recently he has been working with the lung cancer team in Leicester to identify people who smoke, who are referred to the lung cancer 2WW clinic and providing treatment on an opt-out basis. Sanjay contributed to the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Clinical Statement on the management of in-patient tobacco dependency published in 2024 and is working on the implementation of in-patient tobacco dependency treatment services in every hospital in England.