• Children become aware of cigarettes at an early age. Three out of four children are • Children often start to experiment with smoking in early teenage years. More than • Smoking may be seen as an act of rebellion or a way to lose weight, or it may simply • Children are more likely to smoke if one or both of their parents smoke and parent’s Click here to access a Power Point presentation on Children and Smoking written in July 2010. Healthy Schools - Smoke Free Healthy schools are expected to comply with the law and be smoke free. Schools must make sure that their smoking policy reflects the legislation and it applies to every person in the school setting - including children. An effective policy is one that the whole school is made aware of and which has a dedicated champion for tackling smoking. School provision All pupils learn about the harm to their health posed by smoking. The national curriculum science order which is statutory, states in relation to tobacco that all pupils in key stages 2 to 4 must be taught about the effects of tobacco. However this is a statutory minimum - it is expected that schools use the PSHE education framework to extend this provision. The public health department at Kirklees NHS is keen to move away from one off health days that schools often hold and move to a more consistent, comprehensive school approach. Methods that prove more successful are: youth advocacy, de-normalising smoking amongst adults, limit tobacco advertising and keeping the prices of cigarettes high. Public health has partnership work in progress with trading standards so if the school has intelligence of local shops that are selling to your pupils, please get in touch with Rebecca Elliott. Pupils that want help Anybody who comes into contact with smokers should be trained in brief interventions which teach you how to raise the issue effectively. If you come across a pupil who wants to stop there are 3 ways in which you can help them. Option 1 Refer to the in-house advisor (usually a school nurse) who has completed their intermediate advisor training course. Option 2 Refer to the specialist stop smoking service which has dedicated young people advisors (all schools should have referral forms to refer individual young people) Option 3 If there are a group of young people (more than 6), that want to stop, the specialist service can come and run the sessions in the school environment, with support from the dedicated lead in the school. To view the entire programme of sessions that Kirklees Stop Smoking Service offers click here: To view the list of drop in sessions (no appointment necessary) click here: The service offers one to ones which may be more appropriate for young people. The Health in Schools team would like to inform you of some stop smoking sessions operating in Batley and Newsome. Read on for more information about the sessions: ‘Time for me’ is a stop smoking club at Batley Health Centre. The sessions are free, provided by NHS Kirklees, and the next session starts on Monday 6th September 2010 form 5.30 – 6.30p.m. There will be the opportunity to meet an ex service user, meet other people in the same position as you, receive fun physical activity sessions, tips and techniques on how to avoid putting on weight and advice on stress management. Further dates will be sent to school and posted on the website throughout the year. Currently the sessions are unique to Batley (for the women's sessions), and we would like to invite any staff member within your school who may be interested. We would also like to invite the parents of the children within the school and so have prepared a sample of information that you might want to include within your school newsletters. This information can also be downloaded here to make it easier for you to include in your newsletters. Article for Batley Schools newsletter We very much hope you will support these projects and help spread the word to women living in Batley. Ifyou would like to book your place at Batley, please ring 01924 351498 or text TIME to 81066’ (normal network charge). A free stop smoking group will be starting in Newsome on Thursday 9 September. Whatever your reason for wanting to stop smoking, Kirklees Stop Smoking Service will help you to stop smoking for good. Dedicated advisors will be offering free, non-judgmental, confidential, expert advice tailored to your needs. There will be: We would also like to invite the parents of the children within the school and so have prepared a sample of information that you might want to include within your school newsletters. This information can also be downloaded here to make it easier for you to include in your newsletters. Click here to download the leaflet The next group of sessions will start on Thursday 9 September 2010 at 5.30pm at
If you would like to book your place at Newsome please call 01484 344285 or text JOIN to 82085 to book your place (text charged at normal network rate). If you have any questions about this project, or if you require any more information, please contact Rebecca Elliott, Health Improvement Practitioner Specialist Tobacco on 07720463005. This is a resource that is primarily aimed at primary school children. To access the resource click here: Further copies of these can be accessed at the Public Health resource Centre. However, the project is going to be embedded into the SPICED programme that is currently delivered across primary schools in children - so watch this space for further information. If you would like more advice, information or guidance on smoking in school in Kirklees and how to tackle, please contact Rebecca Elliott - Health Improvement Practitioner Specialist for the Tobacco programme - Rebecca.elliott@kirklees.nhs.uk 01924 351476 To ring the Stop Smoking Service directly contact 01924 351498 (Dewsbury, Batley Spenborough) or 01484 344285 (Huddersfield). The young person advisor is Pam who you can contact on the Huddersfield number above. School based interventions to stop smoking This quick reference guide presents the recommendations made in ‘School-based interventions to prevent the uptake of smoking among children and young people’. Click here to access the guidelines
aware of cigarettes before they reach the age of five.
80% of smokers take up the habit by the age of 18.
be done as a result of peer pressure.
approval or disapproval of the habit is also a critical factor.
Sessions by the Kirklees Stop Smoking Service
New Stop Smoking Sessions!
Stop Smoking Session for Women in Batley
Stop Smoking Session in Newsome
Kirklees Smoke free homes project
Further information