Targeting routine and manual smokers to make a quit attempt – A workplace programme
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Author(s)
Nicola Hill
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Nicola Hill Stop Smoking Service Manager, Barking & Dagenham Community Health Service, London |
Abstract This presentation will outline an innovative approach to delivering stop smoking services in the workplaces and associated results through case studies.
Aims
To pilot a programme using a holistic approach that focuses on the wider aspects of health to engage with routine and manual smokers.
Method
Recruitment of businesses with a large number of routine and manual workers
Work in partnership with the organisation to develop strategies to promote the programme. Strategies varied from business to business.
Strategies for employee engagement – awareness event and healthly lifestyle checks
- Attendees were offered: BMI, Blood pressure, lung age and carbon Monoxide reading
- As part of the screening process participants were given a print out of the screening results together with relevant literature to take away
- For those smokers wanting support to quit an in house stop smoking programme was provided.
Results:
4 businesses participated in the pilot project.
As a result of the programme one of the businesses has subsequently had a member of staff trained to level 2 to provide ongoing cessation programme.
Positive outcomes will be demonstrated thorough case studies.
Conclusion: The workplace programme proved to be highly successful in raising service awareness and encouraging routine and manual workers to set quit dates. This cost effective model is now being offered to more local businesses and could be readily adopted within other boroughs.
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Source of funding: Barking and Dagenham Stop Smoking Service
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Declaration of interest: None
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