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 interested in this programme, please call

Simon Clucas          07887 545500

Chris Allen              07931 438317

email:                    admin@sector3solutions.co.uk