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Thursday 16th February, 2006
Quit Smoking At ASDA Small Heath

ASDA helps shoppers breathe easy

With the smoking ban coming into force in the summer next year, ASDA has launched a 'Quit Smoking Clinic' at its Small Heath store.

Customers will be encouraged to attend a weekly 'Quit Smoking Clinic' held at the ASDA supermarket on Coventry Road.

The clinics are run in conjunction with Eastern Birmingham Primary Care Trust whose aim is to give customers tailored advice from the team of NHS professionals on how to successfully work on giving up for good.

The 'Quit Smoking Clinics' are free to customers and will be held in store on Saturdays from the 25th February for a period of ten weeks.

Store manager Jane Smaldon said, "We hope that our clinics will get Small Heath breathing easier and we will offer our customers as much support as we can. Here at ASDA we feel that with will-power and support we will have our shoppers quitting cigarettes for good"

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Contact the ASDA Press office for more information contact
Kath Brady Event Coordinator (0121) 766 7374

Notes for Editors

UK Smoking Stats:

  • Approximately 26% of the UK population (aged 16 years and over) are smokers
  • Four Million smokers attempt to give up smoking very year and only 3-6% are successful
  • Approx 120,000 people die of smoking-related diseases every year
  • 70% of UK adult smokers would like to quit smoking for good

General Information

  • Patches and gum will be available free of charge for customers on prescriptions.
  • Each puff from a cigarette sends around 4,000 chemicals into the body, including the harmful gas Carbon Monoxide (CO).
  • The normal level of CO for a non-smoker depends on background levels in the air, but it is usually between 0 and 8 parts per million.
  • A person who smokes 20 cigarettes per day will commonly have a CO level of about 20 parts per million while a 40 a-day smoker may have a level of about 40 parts per million.
  • It only takes approximately 24-48 hours without a cigarette to eliminate traces of Carbon Monoxide from your system
  • There are also specially designed leaflets available in-store offering hints, tips and advise to customers
  • ASDA Small Heath is on Coventry Road Birmingham
  • The clinic will be held between 11am and 2pm on Saturdays for ten years



 

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