Offer stop smoking help at work, says NICE

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The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7449 p478
28 April 2007

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Offer stop smoking help at work, says NICE

Employees should be allowed to attend smoking cessation services during working hours without loss of pay, the National Institute for Clinical Health and Excellence has recommended. Furthermore, where feasible, and where there is sufficient demand, employers should provide onsite stop smoking support.

In its latest public health intervention guidance NICE recommends that smoking cessation service providers should offer proven interventions by trained staff and ensure that support and treatment is tailored to employees’ needs and preferences, taking into account their circumstances and offering locations and schedules to suit them.

Management of anxiety and depression NICE has also issued updated guidelines on the management of anxiety and depression in primary and secondary care. The guidelines now take account of new safety advice issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on venlafaxine (PJ, 3 June 2006, p647).

NICE guidance on anxiety and depression