(Registration required)
This module is only unlocked after completing core training.
⏱️ 1–2 hours + 45-minute assessment
National Centre for Smoking Cessation Training (NCSCT)
Very Brief Advice (VBA) Modules
This training is for anyone who comes into contact with people who smoke.
Explore a range of free online training modules here from the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT) to support your professional development in tobacco control and smoking cessation.
VBA on Smoking (VBA+)
Short training module on delivering Very Brief Advice on Smoking
⏱️ 30–60 minutes + 30-minute assessment
Start Module
VBA on Second hand Smoke: Promoting Smokefree Homes and Cars
Short training module on how best to raise the issue of secondhand smoke exposure and promote smokefree homes and cars.
⏱️ 30–60 minutes + 30-minute assessment
VBA on Smoking for Pregnant Women
Short training module on delivering very brief advice on smoking (VBA) to pregnant women, including carbon monoxide (CO) screening.
⏱️ 60 minutes + 30-minute assessment
VBA+ for Homelessness Services
Short training module on delivering very brief advice on smoking (VBA) to people who are homeless.
(Registration required)
⏱️ 60 minutes + 30-minute assessment
🏛️ National Schemes
Swap-to-Stop (Registration required)
Swap-to-Stop offers people who smoke the opportunity to quit by switching to vaping, with or without attending a stop smoking service.
⏱️ 60 minutes + 30-minute assessment
National Smoke-Free Pregnancy Incentives Scheme
A short training module on incentives for stopping smoking in pregnancy.
⏱️ 30–60 minutes + 30-minute assessment
💡 Additional Learning (No Assessments)
Stop Smoking Aids (Registration required)
A short training module on stop smoking aids such as stop smoking medications and nicotine vapes.
⏱️ 2 hours
Vaping: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals
This course is designed to provide health and social care professionals with up-to-date evidence and practice guidance on nicotine vapes and vaping.
⏱️ 2 hours
Stop Smoking Practitioner Training
This training is only for Stop Smoking Practitioners working in Local Stop Smoking Services in Cheshire and Merseyside Local Authorities.
Free registration is required to access these modules
(Advisor training for NHS staff is in the section after this one)
🔑 NCSCT Core Practitioner Training
Stop Smoking Practitioner Training & Assessment Programme
Equips you with the core competences to effectively help people who smoke to quit. Upon completion, you will become a Certified Stop Smoking Practitioner.
(Registration required)
⏱️ 4–7 hours + 1-hour assessment
NCSCT Pregnancy and Smoking Cessation
(Registration required)
This module is only unlocked after completing core training.
⏱️ 1–2 hours + 45-minute assessment
NCSCT Vape Friendly Services
Recommended for service managers or leads (Registration required)
Learn how stop smoking services offering support to people who are using vapes in a quit attempt.
⏱️ 15–30 minutes
GP Training
RCGP Essentials of Smoking Cessation
This module aims to inform members of the primary care team about the basics of smoking cessation and will be useful for those who prescribe in conjunction with outsourced smoking cessation services and those who provide full smoking cessation services within their practice.
Additional Resources for professionals and councillors involved in tobacco control
ASH Local Toolkit
Free resources and materials for local public health professionals and councillors involved in tobacco control.
Smoke Free Action Coalition
The Smokefree Action Coalition (SFAC) is a group of over 300 organisations across the UK committed to ending smoking. The Coalition is coordinated by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).
NHS Training Tobacco Dependency Treatment Service staff Training: Acute inpatients
This training is only for NHS workers, including advisors in NHS Tobacco Treatment Dependency (TTD) Services, Clinical Staff and Prescribers and GPs.
All NHS Frontline staff
E-lfH Core module
The admission care bundle, screening for Tobacco dependency brief advise and managing acute nicotine withdrawal
Action on Smoking and Health Resource Hub
In addition to NCSCT Very Brief Advice on Smoking (VBA+)
This resource hub brings together key resources developed by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), NHSE and others to support Long Term Plan implementation in acute inpatient, mental health and maternity settings.
Tobacco Dependency Treatment Advisor Training
NCSCT hosts a comprehensive suite of training resources for delivery by in-house trainers to support the training of Tobacco dependence Advisors.
Acute inpatient Tobacco Dependence Advisor Training package
Accessed via eLFH.
⏱️ 2 days or modular to complete
Clinical staff and prescribers
E-LfH Tobacco Dependence Treatment- inpatient training package –
The admission care bundle, initiating tobacco dependency aides, Myths and facts.
Additional Resources for TTD workers
The Cure Project
The Curing Tobacco addiction in Greater Manchester (CURE) has a variety of resources available to support service delivery.
KHub Group Training
(Registration required)
North East Smokefree NHS / Treating Tobacco Dependency Knowledge Hub Group is a free professional online group, managed by Fresh, offering access a wide range of information and resources from local experts in the region.
