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What are the Smokefree Services in Glasgow and Clyde?

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Smokefree Services are responsible for a wide range of tobacco projects aimed at reducing the damage from tobacco to people in and around Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Tobacco Strategies and plans

glasgowtobaccostrategy_page_02.jpg - 166.83 Kb Smoking levels in Glasgow and Clyde are the highest of any health board in Scotland. We are making progress and levels of smoking are coming down but if we are to effectively tackle smoking we have to do more. We have to work together with other organisations in Glasgow and Clyde, deliver programmes and activities that will really reduce smoking levels, and be well organised and well funded. Basically, we have to work in the same way that the tobacco companies work.

Smokefree services are working with local councils and other partners to produce local tobacco action plans and strategies. These give details of how we are going to tackle tobacco, when we are going to do it and how we are going to measure whether we made any difference.

Communication and media

Smokefree services was launched in 2008 as the new identity for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's tobacco programme.

"Smokefree Services exists to help people working and living in Glasgow break free from the harmful effects of tobacco"

Since then we have been working hard to ensure that both the public and health professionals know who we are and what we do.

We have produced a range of posters and leaflets promoting the stop smoking services that we deliver - in the community, in hospitals and for pregnant women. We have run a billboard and bus stop advertising campaign and promoted the stop smoking services on local radio.

Locally there has been much more activity, in addition to the campaigns highlighted above, to ensure that people know about the range of stop smoking services that are on offer and how to access them.

We are developing a marketing and communications plan to help to ensure that the public and health professionals understand who we are and what we do and to promote the services that we offer. We are also really keen to understand what people think about our services. We are consulting on the plan at the moment and it will be available here for download in the near future.

To see examples of our leaflets and posters please see below:

icon Pregnancy leaflet - outside (715.61 kB 2009-10-2815:33:28
nhs_hospital_a3 poster image.jpg - 384.63 Kb icon Pregnancy leaflet - inside (786 kB 2009-10-28 15:32:26)
icon Pregnancy - A3 Poster (629.88 kB 2009-10-28 15:36:35)
icon Hospital A3 poster (624.61 kB 2009-10-28 15:34:16)
icon Hospital leaflet - outside (1.36 MB 2009-10-28 15:31:13)
icon Hospital leaflet - inside (1.04 MB 2009-10-28 15:30:05)
icon Community Smoking Leaflet (1.85 MB 2012-04-20 08:41:29)

To see examples of billboard adverts we have done please see below:

icon Smokefree Services Billboard Advert (667.58 kB)

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