POLL: Butt out for Weedless Wednesday
If you’re a smoker and need that extra push to quit, today would be a great start—Weedless Wednesday.
Weedless Wednesday expanded to an entire National Non-Smoking Week to encourage people to quit smoking.
To help promote a healthy tobacco-free lifestyle, the health region has been involved in a Tobacco Reduction Strategy since 2008, explained health promotions co-ordinator with the Prince Albert Parkland Health Region (PAPHR) Bill Bray.
“What we’re trying to do is educate our frontline workers, primarily, to provide brief intervention services to people. So, we screen everybody for tobacco use when they come under our care and then provide them with some potential options, ask them if they’re interested in quitting and ask them if they’re interested in quitting, and you know you know try to encourage them to stop smoking,” Bray said.