Smoking: A mental health webinar
The London Tobacco Alliance (LTA) is running a smoking and mental health week from 2–6 June 2025.
The week aims to highlight the high smoking prevalence among people with mental health issues and the support available to quit smoking. Along with sharing newly developed content and information on the issue, the week aims to provide information and encourage dialogue between healthcare professionals on the support that can be given to encourage smoking cessation and the development of smoke free environments.
As part of this the LTA is hosting a webinar for professionals working in health, care and tobacco control roles at 10am-12midday, Wednesday, 4 June.
The webinar will be chaired by Dr Ed Beveridge Consultant Psychiatrist and Royal College of Psychiatrists Presidential lead for Physical Health. Speakers include a range of leaders in their field will talk about the relationship of smoking on mental health and related issues – and how working together action can be taken to support smokers to quit. The webinar will include a Q&A session following the presentations.
The webinar will be held on Teams. Those that wish to attend are asked to register first using the following link: Smoking and mental health webinar – registration
Full details are contained on the registration page. But for information the planned speakers include: Ed Beveridge, Presidential lead for Physical Health, Royal College Psychiatrists, Chair London Physical Health Leads’ Network, Consultant Psychiatrist; Kevin Fenton, Regional Director, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities; Sanjay Agrawal, National Specialty Adviser for Tobacco Dependency NHS England London; John Waldron, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Action on Smoking and Health; Debbie Robson, Senior Lecturer, Tobacco Harm Reduction, King’s College; Ray McGrath, SmokeFree Healthy Hospital Programme Lead, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust; and Dr Gemma Taylor, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Centre for Public Health, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School