Public Health England has been running their annual Stoptober Campaign, trying to encourage people across the UK to quit smoking. Joining in on the campaign Kent County Council along with local health providers, launched help services for smokers trying to quit.
Services like the NHS Smokefree app, Personal Quit Plans, or local support groups and Quit clubs have been working across the county helping those in need. Just last October, almost 4,000 Kent residents completed the Quit Plans, and over 500 people downloaded the Quit app, as a result of the campaign.
This year the County is trying to bring down the numbers as a part of a plan to achieve the national target of 12% or lower of smoking prevalence across Kent by 2022.
Medway Councillor David Brake, said that he’s very pleased that number of smokers in Kent has been getting lower, and more and more people are using the county’s stop-smoking services has increased, and the campaign is ‘going in the right direction.’
According to Public Health England, smoking rates in Kent and Medway are at their lowest with 15% (approximately 185,000 people), and 14.7%. Despite that smoking remains the main cause of preventable disease in the UK; accountable for 1 in 6 of all deaths in England.
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