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Statistics on Local Stop Smoking Services in England, April 2025 to December 2025 (Q3)

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Publication Date:
23 Apr 2026
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Regions, Local Authorities
Date Range:
01 Apr 2025 to 31 Dec 2025

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Summary

This quarterly report presents results from the monitoring of the Local Stop Smoking Services in England during the period April 2025 to December 2025.

Local Stop Smoking Services offer support to help people quit smoking. This can include support through one-to-one or group interventions, either in-person or remotely. The support is designed to help smokers to quit in order to reduce health inequalities, particularly in areas where rates of smoking are higher than the general population. The services should be accessible in the local community and are provided by trained personnel, such as specialist smoking cessation advisors, trained clinical staff and pharmacists.

This report includes information on the number of people setting a quit date and the number who successfully quit at the 4 week follow-up. It also presents in-depth analyses of the key measures of the service including breakdowns by age, ethnic group, socio-economic classification, type of stop-smoking aids used in the quit attempt, as well as spend on services. The results are provided at national, regional, and local authority levels.

Key Facts

Data submitted up to Q3 2025-26 shows there were 187,923 attempts to quit smoking using stop smoking services (SSS)

Of these, 98,278 (52.3%) people successfully quit based on self-reported outcomes.

Of those who set a quit date and successfully quit, 11.8% had their results confirmed by Carbon Monoxide verification

279,680 referrals up to Q3 2025-26 into SSS were made and 67.2% of these referrals led to a quit attempt

111,052 (59.1%) people setting a quit date up to Q3 2025-26 were eligible for free prescriptions

52.5% had successfully quit based on self-reported outcomes

Routine and manual occupations were the most engaged socio-economic group accounting for 37,441 (19.9% of all quit attempts) up to Q3 2025-26

Never worked or unemployed for over 1 year accounted for 29,232 (15.6% of all quit attempts)
Retired accounted for 28,174 (15.0% of all quit attempts)
Sick/disabled and unable to return to work accounted for 25,192 (13.4% of all quit attempts)

Combination of nicotine replacement therapies was the most popular stop smoking aid used in quit attempts up to Q3 2025-26

Accounting for 56,410 (30.0% of all quit attempts) and achieving a 53.1% success rate.

Nicotine vapes, used on their own accounted for 30,525 (16.2% of all quit attempts), achieving a 48.8% success rate.
Single nicotine replacement therapy accounted for 26,831 (14.3% of all quit attempts), achieving a 55.9% success rate.

Last edited: 23 April 2026 9:31 am