An outline of NDC services helping smokers quit

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An outline of NDC services helping smokers quit

• A partnership project with Coventry NHS Stop
  Smoking Services
• Joy Ellis and Michael Hawkins

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The health impact of smoking

• One in three smokers dies of a smoking related
  illness in Coventry before their 65th birthday
• The average smoker will develop diseases of old
  age some twelve years earlier than a non-smoker1
• Smokers who do not die prematurely can on average
  expect to suffer disability related to illness,
  fourteen years earlier than a non smoker2
• Smoking also acts a gateway to other poor
  health choices, compounding the risk of premature
  illness and death for the smoker3
• 1,2 Robert West 2004 3.Dallongueville 1998

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Overview of stop smoking services in NDC area

• Jointly funded. NDC provide funding for sessional
  workers and venues, PCT provides Nicotine
  Replacement Therapy
• Stop Smoking Drop-in service provided in two
  locations Wood End (The Family Project) and
  Henley Green (Henley Green community Centre)
• Both services provided five days a week, Monday
  to Friday
• One to one support with NRT
• Long term support and relapse support available

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Facts and Figures

• 150 stop smoking interventions between January
  2008 to September 2008
• 40 quit rate at four week follow up (60
  quitters)
• Less than 2 of clients paying for prescriptions
• Current cost per intervention, including NRT
  85.00
• Current cost per quitter 216, compares
  favourably at this point with national average
  NHS cost of 160 per quitter

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What can you do to support this project?

• Always ask patients/clients if they smoke
• Opportunistic advice take every opportunity to
  create dialogue with smokers
• Promote the Stop Smoking Services in the NDC area
  
• Emphasise the links with health eating and
  exercise
• Think about your own in-house quit groups
• Promote smoke-Free homes

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Reducing the number of people smoking adds to
healthy community life

• Middle generation remains to support young and
  old in the community (smokers die on average 23
  years earlier than non smokers)
• Less young people take up smoking (five times
  more likely to smoke if parent or sibling smokes)
• Reduced infant mortalities and healthier under
  fives ( one in three children lives with a
  smoker)
• Greater health benefits for positive health
  choices made
• Reduces the amount of chronic disability and the
  caring associated with it in the community