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QuitReady in our workplaces 

Do you have a workplace in Leicestershire with employees who smoke?  

Whatever the size of your business, we can help you support your staff to quit and create a healthier workplace.   

Cost of smoking to businesses  

  • Smoking costs UK business £8.7 billion per year, due to sick leave and smoking breaks. 
  • Smokers take between 1 and 2.7 more sick days off per year than non-smokers and take more breaks during the working day. This equates to 136 hours of lost productivity every year for the average smoker – costing the average business £1,522 in unproductive wages (CEBR, 2014). 

  

 What you can do to support a smokefree workplace 

Here is a useful checklist of what businesses can do in relation to smoking and tobacco, to ensure that legal obligations are met: 

  • key personnel are aware of their duties under smoke-free legislation and are in compliance 
  • all staff are aware of the smoke-free and tobacco control laws and how they are applied in their workplace 
  • sources of further information and support to quit smoking are readily available to staff – www.quitready.co.uk 
  • a smoke-free policy is in place and staff are aware of it 
  • the smoke-free policy extends to all smoking habits including e-cigarettes. 

  

What QuitReady can offer you 

QuitReady services are free and confidential.  They are open to anyone who meets at least one of the following criteria: 

  • Leicestershire County Council or Rutland County Council Resident 
  • GP based in Leicestershire or Rutland County Council district 
  • Employer based in Leicestershire or Rutland County Council district 

 

To achieve the best outcome for your workplace, the QuitReady Service can provide a range of interventions: 

  1. Information about the council’s free stop smoking service offer and how staff are able to sign up to the QuitReady programme 
  2. Information about the harms of smoking, second hand smoke and the benefits of stopping smoking
  3. On site Information Stall delivered by trained smoking cessation advisor
  4. Smoking Cessation Level 1 Training – for key personnel in the organisation i.e. occupational health, health champions
  5. Group based smoking cessation support if you have 8 or more members of staff that would like to stop smoking 

If this is something that you are interested in, please contact us today.