NHS Lothian Health Promotion Service
Young People, Tobacco Prevention and Smoking Cessation: an introduction
Date: Tuesday 11th October
Time: 9.15am – 4.30pm
Venue: Liberton Hospital (Function room), 113 Lasswade Road, Edinburgh EH16 6UB
Cost: Free to participants
Course Aims: To enable workers to gain an insight into the key issues relating to young people’s tobacco use, and to consider how both tobacco prevention and cessation can be delivered to young people.
“the course will help me focus more on why young people from deprived backgrounds begin and sustain smoking”
“I found the information, resources and ideas to use within the classroom useful”
Previous course participants
Learning outcomes: participants will have an opportunity to:
• learn about approaches to smoking prevention including examples of practical exercise to use in working with young people
• develop skills in providing stop smoking support to young people in brief/opportunistic settings
Participants: this course is suitable for staff from a range of agencies such as High schools, community learning & development, youth work and NHS settings, who are looking for an introduction to working on tobacco issues with young people
Course Facilitators:
Avril Browne, Stop Smoking Facilitator, NHS Lothian
Colin Lumsdaine, Senior Health Promotion Specialist, NHS Lothian
Closing date: Tuesday 30th August 2016
To book a place on-line:
http://www.nhslothianhpstraining.com/TrainingProgrammes.aspx?ProviderId=4
For further details please contact:
Karen Haig
Health promotion Service
0131 537 9389
karen.haig@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk