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This report requests approval to accept and spend the funding of £2,726,075 over 5 years (£545,215 per annum) awarded to Nottingham City Council by the Department of Health and Social Care to support our stop smoking service and help more people stop smoking in Nottingham city.

The smoking rates in Nottingham city is second highest in England with adult smoking prevalence 21.2%, higher than the national average of 12.7%. Smoking is one of the largest causes of ill-health and early death in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. It has an impact on children and young people’s lives through pregnancy to adolescence. Children and teenagers from the poorest neighbourhoods are considerably more likely to be exposed to smoking throughout their youth, increasing their risk of developing smoking habits and being harmed by secondhand smoke. This worsens health inequalities by encouraging smoking practices in future generations. Smoking and Tobacco control is therefore one of four high level priorities to improve health and reduce health inequalities of the population in Nottingham included within the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-25.

The approval of the recommendations within this report will allow for the improvement, expansion and additional targeting of the support offered to smokers to quit, over the next 5 years (2024-29).