New study: Smoking cessation Advice for financially Vulnerable Individuals accessiNG financial Support (SAVINGS)

The Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford are looking for housing organisations or money advice/financial support services to collaborate in a new study called Smoking cessation Advice for financially Vulnerable Individuals accessiNG financial Support (SAVINGS). 

This study will test support provided to smokers on low incomes in these settings. Participating in the study could give tenants/clients access to additional support for quitting smoking and all those who participate will be renumerated through vouchers or similar.

Organisations that participate in SAVINGS would be randomly assigned to the intervention or usual care. Those assigned to the intervention would receive Very Brief Advice (VBA+) training from the National Centre for Smoking Cessation Training (NCSCT) with a particular focus on the financial benefits of quitting, and would deliver the very brief intervention opportunistically to clients.

All costs would be fully covered by research funding. Organisations are under no obligation to participate in the study but if interested in doing so will need to sign a letter of support and be listed as collaborators in the funding application. If funded the project would commence in April 2024.

To find out more about the project, or to sign up, please contact Dr. Paul Doody. Interested organisations should get in touch before 15 th March.