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Publication, Part of

Statistics on Local Stop Smoking Services in England, April 2025 to March 2026 (Q4, Annual)

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

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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 March 2026.

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.

Data covering Quarters 1, 2 and 3 are based on re-submitted data.

Key Facts

Data submitted up to Q4 2025-26 shows there were 265,502 attempts to quit smoking using stop smoking services (SSS)

Of these, 141,062 (53.1%)  people successfully quit based on self-reported outcomes.  

Of those successfully quitting, 12.0% had their results confirmed by Carbon Monoxide verification

Referrals

404,953 referrals up to Q4 2025-26 into SSS were made and 65.6% of these referrals led to a quit attempt

152,916 (57.6%) people setting a quit date up to Q4 2025-26 were eligible for free prescriptions

53.1% had successfully quit based on self-reported outcomes

Routine and manual occupations were the most engaged socio-economic group accounting for 52,653 (19.8% of all quit attempts) up to Q4 2025-26

 

Never worked or unemployed for over 1 year accounted for 41,697 (15.7% of all quit attempts)
Retired accounted for 39,411 (14.8% of all quit attempts)
Sick/disabled and unable to return to work accounted for 35,606 (13.4% of all quit attempts)

Combination of nicotine replacement therapies was the most popular stop smoking aid used in quit attempts up to Q4 2025-26 Accounting for 79,540 (30.0% of all quit attempts) and achieving a 53.5% success rate.

Nicotine vapes, used on their own accounted for 43,286 (16.3% of all quit attempts), achieving a 50.5% success rate.
Single nicotine replacement therapy accounted for 36,785 (13.9% of all quit attempts), achieving a 56.5% success rate.
 

Last edited: 23 July 2026 9:31 am