Award for stop smoking service - Buxton Advertiser

Published on Thu Nov 04 08:46:29 GMT 2010

STAFF at the Derbyshire County Stop Smoking Service have scooped a national award.

The service was honoured at the Birmingham launch of 2011 No Smoking Day when it was presented with the award for Best Local Media Coverage of its activities for No Smoking Day 2010.

The service was also highly commended for ‘Best Use of the 2010 Break Free Theme’, a symbolic image of arms breaking free from a chain of cigarettes with the slogan “Break Free, We Can Help.”

The service was represented at the event by Stop Smoking and Alcohol Project Co-ordinator Judith Vincent, who received the awards from Under-secretary for Health Anne Milton.

Judith said: “It was a privilege to represent my colleagues at the Derbyshire County Stop Smoking Service at the awards night. The recognition the service received at the event is a tribute to the hard work they put in every day.”

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Tobacco Alliance fired with award win - AboutMyArea

Published: 26th October 2010 13:42

The Barking and Dagenham Tobacco Alliance has won the No Smoking Day charity's Best Community Partnership award for its efforts during No Smoking Day this year.

Representatives from the Tobacco Alliance partnership received the award at the launch of the 2011 No Smoking Day campaign on Friday 15 October in central London.

L-R: NHS Barking and Dagenham social marketing manager Penny Stothard
and tobacco programme coordinator Vicki Evans from the council's
drugs and alcohol action team are presented with the award by Helen Gordon,
chief executive of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. (Photo: NHS)

The Best Community Partnership award recognises the Tobacco Alliance partners' hard work and determination in delivering a successful event to mark No Smoking Day 2010, reaching thousands of smokers who were ready to take the first step and quit smoking. The alliance fought off competition from over 140 entries and will receive vouchers worth £50 to spend on merchandise to help local smokers stop next year.

Over 1,300 local people quit smoking last year using stop smoking services

The Tobacco Alliance consists of NHS Barking and Dagenham, the council's drugs and alcohol action team, trading standards, and occupational health teams, the stop smoking service, CVS, and local schools.

Over 1,300 local people quit smoking last year using stop smoking services. You are four times more likely to quit using an NHS stop smoking service than going it alone.

NHS Barking and Dagenham's social marketing manager Penny Stothard said:

"Smoking is a really important health concern for us. Working collectively across a range of organisations to promote local support means we can help more people along the difficult journey of quitting."

Cllr Linda Reason, cabinet member for health and adult services, said:

"It's fantastic news that the Tobacco Alliance has been recognised for its partnership working. I'd like to congratulate all the partners on winning the award and working together to help local residents quit smoking."

Marking No Smoking Day in Barking and Dagenham in 2010 saw the alliance getting out and about to get the message across about quitting. The activities included:

introducing a free text messaging service for quitters, making it easy for local people to get information and support about how to quit. People of any age can text QUIT to 82055 and they'll receive a call back from the stop smoking service within two days. advertising that targeted schools and young people by getting them to think about the impact smoking has on their bodies with the messages "Save your skin" and "What's your game plan?" including generating ‘aged' photos of young people in 30 years' time to highlight effects of smoking on their looks and skin and signposting young people to youth health information website http://www.badhealth.nhs.uk/working with local primary schools, which marked No Smoking Day with homework sheets on the dangers of smoking. Secondary school health advisors and teams of students focused on raising the awareness of the effects of smoking to their peers.local advertising and PR campaign to promote the Stop Smoking Service having trained quit advisors at Morrisons and Asda to talk to shoppers sending occupational health nurses to Frizlands and Creek Road depots to talk to staff about quitting.

Top tips to stop smoking:
· Call the local free stop smoking service on 020 8532 6284 or text 82055 and check out what support it can offer - you are four times more likely to stop smoking with their support than going it alone.
· Get some nicotine replacement therapy products such as patches or gum. It can double your chance of stopping - talk to your GP or pharmacist.
· Write down all the reasons you want to stop and stick it on the fridge to help you stay motivated.
· Talk to your friends, family and workmates - support from them is essential - why not quit together and keep each other motivated?

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Top award for Dudley's Stop Smoking team - Dudley News

12:00pm Saturday 16th October 2010

NHS Dudley’s Stop Smoking team is celebrating after winning a prestigious national award for the most innovative event for this year's stop smoking campaign.

This year’s theme 'Break Free' not only told smokers they could break out of the vicious cycle , but also invited 70 per cent of smokers who wanted to quit to use No Smoking Day to make lifelong changes.

Using the national theme, the Dudley Stop Smoking Service teamed up with the Black Country Living Museum, to Make Smoking History!’.

As the Tipton Road museum was setting up a tobacconist shop as part of its new exhibition it called for residents to find smoking memorabilia dating between 1935 and 1939 to deck out its shelves.

The Stop Smoking team invited smokers to use the appeal as a perfect excuse to kick the habit.

And not only did the team win the ‘No Smoking Day’ award they were also runners-up in the ‘Best Education Setting’ category and achieved Highly Commended for ‘Best Photo’ and ‘Best Use of the Big Cig Costume’.

Ruth Olding, Tobacco Control Manager said “I am delighted for the team. No Smoking Day is always a great opportunity for us to get out into the community and talk to smokers who want to quit. Winning these awards is a fantastic achievement that recognises all the hard work and commitment the team put into raising the profile of the service”.

For further information on the Dudley Stop Smoking Service call 0800 0850 652, text CAN to 80800 or visit dudleystopsmoking.co.uk Smokers thinking of kicking the habit during the next No Smoking Day are urged to put Wednesday, March 9 down in their diaries.

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Top award for Stop Smoking team - Yellow Advertiser

Top award for Stop Smoking team

Thursday, 07 October 2010

STUB IT OUT: Chaimanr Afzal Akram with Lynn Harlon, Janet McCaulsky and a giant cigarette from the Stop Smoking Service. Picture by Roy Tillett

By Martyn Dolton

WALTHAM Forest’s Stop Smoking team has won an award for its work in getting locals to stub it out.

The team managed to get 1,666 people in the borough - one of the highest numbers in London - to give it up and were praised for their use of a giant cigarette costume to spread the word.

The team used the costume to catch the imagination of children at Larkswood Primary School, Chingford, in a drama session about how hard it can be for members of their families to stop
smoking.

As a result, 19 parents decided to stop smoking with the help of the NHS Waltham Forest team.

The group met once a week for seven weeks with each smoker given four weeks’ free nicotine replacement, before attending their local ‘drop in to quit’ clinic for more support and a prescription for a further eight weeks.

Lynn Hanlon, Stop Smoking service co-ordinator, said the team was delighted with the award.

She said: “The giant cigarette costume helped us get the message across to the children.

“They then told their parents about the play and its message, and we were on hand to support them with starting the weekly group - it was a great success.”

NHS Waltham Forest’s Stop Smoking service offers free support and advice to smokers who want to stop and the team will be out on the streets at tube stations and supermarkets throughout October to help smokers quit.

Weekly groups run all year, and the next one starts on Satuday, October 30.

If you smoke and want to give up, you can get your free info pack by calling the Stop Smoking service on 020 8430 7443 or e-mail stopsmoking.admin@wf-pct.nhs.uk and quote ‘Yellow Advertiser 01’.

Email: waltham@yellowad.co.uk

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