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Local activity & targets for smoking cessation

Driving forward smoking cessation policy in Sure Start

A wide range of interventions are being implemented locally through Sure Start to reduce smoking during pregnancy. Activities include:

  • Promoting opportunities for mothers to identify time for themselves, rather than taking a smoking break.
  • Encouraging partners of pregnant women to attend smoking cessation clinics.
  • Providing advice and support to mothers to raise self esteem and to reduce the stressors that make giving up smoking a more difficult task e.g. by providing childcare, financial advice, housing advice, relationship support, and training and personal development opportunities.

Additional government activity driving forward smoking cessation policy

The Department of Health is the lead Department for smoking cessation policy and has set a target to: Reduce smoking rates among manual groups from 32% in 1998 to 26% in 2010. Much of the Departments work links into and has an impact on smoking cessation policy within Sure Start. Activities include:


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