Heartbeat: First steps of going smokefree at the Trust

December 17, 2018

As announced by Chief Executive, Toby Lewis on the 70th anniversary of the NHS, our organisation will be smoke free from 5 July 2019.

Back in September we marked 300 days until the ban on smoking comes into play and colleagues are being encouraged to kick the habit.

As an organisation we want to support any colleagues who are interested in quitting smoking. If this applies to you, you can access free stop smoking services during working hours, where you can find support to quit smoking and improve your health and wellbeing.

Alongside traditional coaching and support, 12 weeks of free nicotine replacement therapy to help manage cravings is also available.

One of the first steps in our journey to going smoke free was the recent removal of the smoking shelter at the rear of Trinity House. This shelter has been the subject of a number of Your Right to be Heard letters in Heartbeat after the last couple of months, as colleagues in offices close to the shelter were uncomfortable with the amount of second hand smoke created by people using the shelter.

Anil Patel, Digital Media Officer, who is based in an office directly behind where the shelter was said: “It’s a big relief now that the shelter has been removed.

We are able to open our windows freely without having to be concerned about second hand smoking.”