The SCEPTRE Programme

SCEPTRE stands for Promoting Smoking CEssation and PrevenTing RElapse to tobacco use following a smokefree mental health in-patient stay.  

It is a six-year programme of mixed-methods research, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) that aims to develop a support package for people with serious mental illness to maintain their smoking behaviours following discharge from a smokefree mental health inpatient stay. Our objective is to find ways to support people with mental health conditions to positively change their smoking behaviours or to quit altogether.