Knowing how to use Very Brief Advice to instigate a quit attempt and supporting smokers who are ready to quit is the business of every healthcare professional.

Treating tobacco dependency systematically and effectively will have a significant impact on the triple aim:

• improved individual health outcomes and quality of life
• equitable socioeconomic and geographical distribution of healthcare resources; and
• improved long-term population health outcomes including reducing health inequalities.

A range of evidence-based pharmacological treatments exist to support smokers facing the difficulty of behaviour change and breaking nicotine addiction. Stop smoking support, across the board, is a clinically and highly costeffective long-term intervention for people with smoking-related long-term disease