School set for stop smoking clinic

A dedicated clinic to help youngsters stop smoking could be up and running at a Lincolnshire School by the end of this year.
The Federick Gough School is currently training a team of officers, who will be employed by the school to provide the service to youngsters.
School headteacher, Ben Lawrence, said: "We had a Choices nurse who came and gave smoking cessation advice.
"Now, we are working to develop our own team with the help of the health trust. Within the year, we will have our own, fully trained smoking councillors."
Mr Lawrence said the last adolescent lifestyle survey, carried out in 2008, revealed the number of smokers at the school had halved in the previous three years.
He said: "Around four per cent of our 14 to 16-year-olds now claim that they smoke.
"I thought eight per cent was really high, four per cent is pretty low but it is about doing as much as we possibly can to stop kids from smoking."
In 2008, NHS North Lincolnshire revealed to put smoking clinics in every secondary school in the region by this year.
They were to be rolled out under the Children and Young People's Plan 2008, at a cost of £14,000.
The new clinics were to be set up to operate alongside the 13 existing Choice clinics which are located across North Lincolnshire, and offer advice on lifestyle choices and personal health.

Source: thisisscunthorpe, 05 February 2010