Factsheet : Tobacco Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2016/17 1 Smoking prevalence in adults in Hounslow is 14.1% which is significantly lower than London (16.3%) and England (16.9%) prevalence. Smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death.
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Factsheet : Tobacco
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2016/17
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Smoking prevalence in adults in Hounslow is 14.1% which is significantly lower
than London (16.3%) and England (16.9%) prevalence. Smoking leads to
disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body. Smoking is
the leading cause of preventable death.
What have we got, what are we doing?
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Stop Smoking Service (It is provided as part of the new One You Hounslow
Service by the Hounslow and Richmond Community
Healthcare NHS Trust (HRCH) from 1st of April 2016.
https://oneyouhounslow.org.uk/)
The service has set
individual targets for
each of the priority
groups which are mental
health, routine and
manual workers,
pregnant women, young
people, and those with
lower socioeconomic
status.
Focus on wider tobacco
control work including
prevention in schools,
smoke-free homes and
cars, tackling illicit
tobacco and anti-shisha
campaigns.
One to one, group and
telephone support across
the borough in a wide
range of setting including
community, GP practices,
pharmacies, hospital,
mental health setting and
prison.
➢ In 2015/16 there were 2,598 persons who set a quit date, of whom 1,453 (56%) were 4-week successful
quitters.
➢ 513 Children educated on the harms of smoking at schools (April – Sep 2016).
➢ 14 Young people stopped smoking (April – Sep 2016).
➢ All council sites went smoke free for council employees on 11th March 2015.
➢ 30 smoke free homes and cars pledges (April – Sep 2016).
➢ Seizures of goods resulting from collaborative raids with HMRC, Police and Trading Standards.
➢ An apprentice has been recruited in the Hounslow Trading Standards team with Public Health grant for
tobacco control initiatives.
➢ Hounslow recently took part in a joint North West London illicit tobacco survey that helped identify hotspots of