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A new toolkit to support NHS Stop Smoking Services and Smokefree partners with local marketing activity is now available. The ‘Smokefree Creative Toolkit’ contains a suite of branded artwork templates to use across all marketing channels. These templates have been specifically designed (using feedback from local services)...
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A national TV and radio advertising campaign has been launched to encourage smokers to quit. Smokers can now pick up a new and improved NHS Quit Kit from thousands of pharmacies across England to help them quit. The campaign aims to increase the number of quit attempts by smokers and to help make those attempts more successful...
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From 6 April 2012, large shops will no longer be able to display tobacco products to the public except on certain occasions, for instance when staff are serving customers or when they are carrying out stock control or cleaning. Customers will still be able to buy cigarettes in the usual way but the Government is ending tobacco displays to protect young people who are often the target of tobacco promotion. Ending...
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Smokefree has launched its first text only support programme. The SMS-based support tool will deliver a series of automated text messages direct to smokers’ mobile phones over a period of up to 12 weeks to help them through their quit attempt. The programme has been developed from
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The Quit Kit 2012 campaign will launch on 1 January 2012, with a national TV & radio advertising campaign encouraging smokers to use the ‘Right tools for the job’ by pic...
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On 1 November, the Department of Health launched a national campaign.
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The Department of Health have published the first over-arching social marketing strategy for Public Health England. This strategy outlines a radically new approach for using social marketing throughout people’s lives as part of a broader suite of measures to improve those behaviours that affect health outcomes.
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Healthy Lives, Healthy People: a Tobacco Control Plan for England sets out how tobacco control will be delivered in the context of the new public health system, focusing in particular on the action that the Government will take nationally over the next five years to drive down the prevalence of smoking and to support comprehensive tobacco control in local areas.
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Some of the most popular Smokefree resources have been updated to feature new content, as well as the new Smokefree brand images and colours. These resources include the main Smokefree guide, relapse booklet, planner and support leaflet. You can order them via the Resources page
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A poster for employers to encourage their staff to pick up a Quit Kit from their local pharmacy.
This Quit Plan helps smokers prepare for the key stages of quitting.
Rotating wheel, which shows the benefits to your health and pocket when you quit smoking.
