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No Smoking Day aims to provide support for Smokers who want to quit. It is an ideal time to make contact with Quit4You to find out about services and drop in clinics in your area. Break free from your cigarettes this No Smoking Day.
As part of No Smoking Day, we’ve organised a range of unique activities which you may be interested in coming along to. Find out your lung age on 9 or 10th March or see what you could look like in 50 years from now, with our Virtual Ageing Booth on 15th – 19th March.
Quit4You are working together with the Respiratory Team from the Cardio-Respiratory Department at Noble’s Hospital who are offering Lung Age tests, providing the public with an exclusive chance to find out what age their lungs are in comparison to their real age (9th & 10th March).
WHAT’S YOUR LUNG AGE?
Find out Tuesday 9th & Wednesday 10th March. Visit the Ambulance Bus in Castletown, Peel and Ramsey, or drop into Nobles Main Entrance.
- Tuesday 9th March
- Castletown Market Square, 11am-2pm.
- Peel Market Place, 3pm-5pm.
- Wednesday 10th March.
- Nobles Hospital, display inside main entrance, 9.30am-12noon.
- Ramsey Shoprite Carpark, Bowring Road, 1.30pm-4pm.
Quit4You are also working with RNIB, who have organised for a mobile Virtual Ageing Booth to visit the IOM. The booth uses cutting-edge ageing technology to let you see what you could look like in 50 years. It has been extremely popular touring the UK and Ireland, and Island Residents are also being offered an exclusive opportunity to see what they might look like in years to come. The booth is part of a ‘Future Vision’ campaign which raises awareness of the links between lifestyle choice and the prevention of avoidable sight loss.
FUTURE VISION?
Find out what you could look like 50 years from now with a Virtual Ageing Booth that is coming to the Isle of Man Monday 15th to Friday 19th March.
Visit the ‘Future Vision’ Booth.
- Monday 15th March Manx Blind Welfare Society, Corrin Court, Heywood Avenue, Onchan, 10am-4pm
- Tuesday 16th & Wednesday 17th March Isle of Man College, Homefield Road, Douglas, 10am-3pm
- Thursday 18th & Friday 19th March Regent Street (Opposite Post Office), Douglas, 10am-4pm
Quit4You advisors will also be on hand to offer information and friendly support, and to let the public know about the varied free options available to help people quit smoking. They’ll be stocked with plenty of giveaways, leaflets, and will have their Carbon Monoxide monitors on hand, so you can also measure your CO levels. For more information about the Future Vision Booth, contact Julie Lee (Senior Rehabilitation Officer, RNIB Resource Centre, Onchan) on 677626. For more information about the Ambulance Bus, contact Anita Imberger (Tobacco Strategy Coordinator) on 642404.
Welcome to the stop smoking service for the Isle of Man - Quit4You
If you are thinking about quitting smoking, there is lots of support available to help you stop, and stay stopped. Here you’ll find contact details for free stop smoking services in the Isle of Man to suit your needs, website links with great hints and tips on how to stop smoking, information sheets and free helpline numbers. Whether you are ready to stop smoking now, thinking about giving it a go in the future, or supporting someone else who's trying to quit, these links offer a wealth of information and tips to get you started.
We always value feedback about how people have found quitting smoking on the Isle of Man, and whether there is anything we could do better. Please feel free to email us your ideas or any questions you may have about stopping smoking.
For an Up to Date Information leaflet, please see bottom of page (March 09).
About Quitting on the Isle of Man
The Quit4You service provides free help and support to anyone who wishes to stop smoking.
Confidential appointments with Quit4You Advisors are available in a range of convenient locations, including Pharmacies, GP surgeries, Drop-In Clinics and sessions in workplaces. Advisors offer a programme of support throughout a quit attempt, and can provide vouchers or prescriptions for Nicotine Replacement Therapy, which means people don’t have to see their GP. Full details can be found on the "Available services"
page.
Quit4Two has also been specially created to help pregnant women quit smoking. The Quit4Two service offers personalised support from a stop smoking midwife until after the birth of their baby.
Quit4You Advisors at the launch of the service 6th February 2007 (from Left to Right): Angela Howland (Senior Health Promotion Officer), Debra Ashmole (Practice Nurse, Finch Hill Health Centre), Ruth Phillips (Stop Smoking Advisor), Lynne Pilley (Practice Nurse, Palatine Group Practice), Jo Parsons (Stop Smoking Advisor), Anita Imberger (Tobacco Strategy Coordinator), Dorothy Beggs (Pharmacist, Boots Pharmacy), Fiona Marshall (Pharmacist, Lloyds Pharmacy, St Pauls Square, Ramsey), Mary O’Connor (Stop Smoking Midwife), Michelle Clague (Health Promotion Officer).
This service has been developed as a key priority of the Tobacco Strategy, and was launched by the Public Health Directorate, DHSS, on 6th February 2007.
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