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English Smokers Want to Quit

Published on July 15, 2008 5:20 PM

According to statistics, recorded by the National Health Service (NHS) Stop Smoking Service, the smoking among English people have decreased, around 165,000 smokers quit and most smokers say that they would really like to kick the habit.

In a study they mentioned that the Smoke free legislation, which was approved by Government, came into force on 1 July 2007. This legislation helped English smokers a lot. With restrictions on smoking in public places introduced in 2007, was observed that more smokers are trying to quit.

After these results the Department of Health ‘Getting Off Cigarettes' campaign, decided to launch a website ' Stop Smoking Hotline'. Their reasons were to give a support to those who want to quit and to reduce smoking.

The investigators explained that the more reasons smokers will have to quit smoking the more likely they will be to give it a go.

The researchers of this campaign showed that about 73,000 smokers had visited the campaign website, 9,000 smokers had called the NHS Smoking Helpline for more information and more than 25,000 smokers had been sent the free 'Get Support' DVD, giving more information about the NHS support available.

Dawn Primarolo, a Public Health Minister, said: "It's great news that so many smokers have been able to quit, preventing serious health problems and complications. It's not easy to overcome a nicotine addiction so it's clear that the NHS Stop Smoking Service is providing a vital service. And these figures are confirmation that the £56 million we invested into the service last year was money well spent. This follows the news last week that a smaller proportion of adults now smoke - 22 per cent down from 24 per cent. We are well on track to meet our target to reduce the proportion of smokers in England to 21 per cent by 2010".

Researchers established that smokers want to quit indeed and they became more interest in how they can quit.