Smoking is Gateshead's biggest health issue, affecting 40,485 people. This contributes massively to poverty in the region and promotes health inequalities. In Gateshead alone, approx. 11,500 people buy from the illicit tobacco trade, paying organised crime £10.5 million. The illicit tobacco trade is also the largest supplier of cigarettes to children.
Gateshead
Smokefree Alliance, Gateshead Council and Sector 3 Solutions are encouraging
all frontline staff, community leaders and volunteers to take Brief
Intervention Training and Secondhand Smoke Training, which will enable them to
help smokers to quit. Brief Intervention
is a short impromptu approach to tackling the subject of smoking with people
who may be willing to make a quit attempt.
The
half day session is an interactive and lively way of raising staff's awareness
of the issues around smoking. The
session covers the harmful effects of tobacco smoke, the features of addiction,
ways to approach the subject of a quit attempt and how to assess a person's
readiness to quit.
If
you are a member of frontline staff, managing a team or a community organiser,
and are intereted in this programme, please call
Simon
Clucas #### ######
Natalie
Goodman #### ######
Chris
Allen #### ######
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