COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, March 12, 2018
MOTION NO 16.
MOTION: Councillor P. Foley
That this Council support the new HSE Quit campaign that helps smokers quit for good and to ask the Chief Executive if there are any actions the Council can do to promote this worthwhile endeavour.
REPORT:
Smoking cessation is one of the priorities of Healthy South Dublin. We have been successfully delivering a We Can Quit Programme for women in partnership with the HSE and the Irish Cancer Society in Tallaght since 2015.
We Can Quit supports women to support other women to stop smoking.
It is a free, friendly and supportive 12 week programme for women to help you to quit smoking and stay quit for good. The programme offers free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), a weekly smoking cessation group and one to one support.
To date 66% of participants who took part in and completed the twelve week programme have quit smoking.
|
Venue |
Registered |
Completed |
Quit |
|
Fettercairn Health Project April 2016 |
20 |
18 |
12 |
|
Fettercairn Health Project September 2016 |
20 |
17 |
11 |
|
Venue |
Registered |
Completed |
Quit |
|
Fettercairn Health Project April 2017 |
20 |
16 |
11 |
|
Killinarden Community Centre September 2017 |
15 |
11 |
7 |
This programme will be extended to Clondalkin area in 2018.
to date the programme has had 75 Registered with 62 Completed and 41 Quit successfully in full.
In the We Can Quit (WCQ) statistical Report produced by Dr Jo-Hanna Ivers and Professor Catherine Hays - reserach Partners from Trinity College the main findings include:
- out of 237 women who registered, 216 participated and consented to be followed up
- Average age of the women was 51
- almost 70% had smoked for 25 years or more
- 48.6% quit rate at 6 weeks
- 50.4% quit rate at the end of the programme at 12 weeks
- majority of women used comination NRT at 6 weeks and 12 weeks
- the We Can Quit Campaign elicited significant changes in wellbeing over time
The South Dublin County Campaign has to date a 66% success rate.
The programmes are being delivered with assistance from Fettercairn Community Health Project and in 2018 we will begin in Clondalkin Healthy Living Centre.
Healthy South Dublin will continute to work in partnership with all of our partner organisations to address/support Smoking Cessation in the County.