In the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Alliance area, our Strategic Objective 4 aims to prevent children and young people from starting to smoke or vape.
Our activities around this include
- INTENT programme, a smoking and vaping prevention education programme which can be delivered in secondary schools. The target audience is 11-15 year olds and the materials include helping children to develop a plan of action for what they would do or say if offered a cigarette / vape. Find out more about INTENT
- Working at a system level to promote consistent messages around vaping to young people, by all the partners who might come into contact with them. If you would like more information please contact us.
- Provision of quit support:
- Our stop smoking services will see any local smoker aged 12+ who wants to stop. Professional Referral - Your Health Nottinghamshire
- Our substance misuse services will support any young person aged 12+ to stop using illegal substances in vapes. Nottinghamshire referrals | Change Grow Live
- We are developing a new pilot on provision of stop vaping support for aged 12+. This will be initially focused on selected Notts schools.
- The 12+ cut off for all the above services applies because Nicotine Replacement Therapy is only licensed for use with people aged 12 and over. We are unable to provide these services for children aged 11 and under.
- Working with Trading Standards teams to prevent underage sales of tobacco products and vapes. If you’d like to know more about this work, read our case study.
Resources for professionals who work with young people:
These padlets contain downloadable resources for specific audiences:
- Schools Smoking and vaping resource pack (Nottingham City) – for use by schools.
- Notts vape-free schools resource pack (Nottinghamshire County) – for use by schools and alternative education providers. Factual resources, learning materials, whole school approaches, guidance on handling incidents, campaign materials, links to more info.
- Nottinghamshire Youth Services vaping resources - materials to support workshops with young people on vaping. Workshop slides, leaders’ notes, evaluation forms, handouts, links to more info.
Public-facing information – for use with young people, parents, or front-line workers who have contact with these groups.
You can download copies direct from this site for use in your settings, or request printed copies to be sent to you by completing this Microsoft Form.
Vaping
- Animation on vaping aimed at young people
- Easy-read information for young people about vaping (anticipated audience 13-24 years old)
- Reporting underage sales of vapes poster - for sharing with staff and with parents
Smoking
- Reporting underage sales of tobacco products poster (for sharing with staff and with parents)
Smoking in cars project
- Front line workers conversation guide - a detailed look at smoking in cars, the law, evidence of need for action in Nottinghamshire, and how to broach this topic with parents
- Conversation notes - No smoking in vehicles with children inside
- SmokeFree Vehicles - A summary guide for professionals working with parents, families and carers