Passive smoking can affect children’s health, and estimates suggest that there are 1.8 million households with children in England where at least one person smokes1,2 . Our mission is to help more families become smokefree and to reduce the number of babies born into smoking households.
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Smoking Parents
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Smoking partners
Download these leaflets and guides we’ve developed to help you support smoking parents, partners of pregnant women, and people they live with on their quit journeys.
Patient Leaflet
Quitting Together Guide
Patient Leaflet
Creating a Smokefree Home for Your Family
Healthcare Professional Guide
Conversation Guide to Helping Partners Go Smoke Free
Patient Leaflet
8 tips for a healthy home for children and babies
Healthcare Professional Guide
Health visitor top tips: Creating a smokefree home
We have also compiled a list of a few external sources of useful information for healthcare professionals which can be accessed by clicking on the buttons below.
Key guidelines and resources
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline.
Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting, and treating dependence [NG209].
Click here to read (opens to a new window)
National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT).
Stopping smoking in pregnancy: A briefing for maternity care providers.
Click here to read (opens to a new window)
Smoking in Pregnancy Challenge Group.
Evidence into Practice: Supporting partners to quit smoking.
References
1. Future Health Research Centre. We are family: Delivering more smokefree families in England.
Available at: https://www.futurehealth-research.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Delivering-Smokefree-Families-FINAL-November-2023-compressed.pdf.
Accessed: February 2024.
2. NHS. Passive smoking.
Available at: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/quit-smoking/passive-smoking-protect-your-family-and-friends.
Accessed: February 2024
Date of preparation December 2024
UK-NIC-2024-90098