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Hi Colleague

Welcome to our new look Smokefree Newsletter, we hope you like it

We'll be using this newsletter to keep in touch with you. It will feature updates on what we're doing in the service and on what's happening in the wider stop smoking world. Please do let us know if there's anything else you would like included. 

Smoking at record low as vaping soars

Newly released ONS figures (2021) show 13.3% of the population smoke, that's down from 14% in the previous year. Nationally, the number of people vaping has increased to 4 million. In City & Hackney our service users are very interested in using a vape to quit. While we cannot provide a vape, our advisors will support anyone who wants to quit using their vape. Vaping is far less harmful than smoking (short to medium term). Using a vape to quit is currently the most successful way of quitting smoking.

New Year New You coming soon

We are launching our annual campaign, New Year New You, on Wednesday 28th December 2022. We want people who smoke to make a New Year’s resolution to quit with us in January. Later this month, we will be sending out details of the campaign to you. In the meantime, if you want more details, please contact marcos.castejonsuner@nhs.net.

                                                                                   E: smokefree.cityandhackney@nhs.net

                                                                                   W: www.smokefreecityandhackney.org