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We'll be there every step of the way with tips and advice to make sure that together we make this No Smoking Day the best yet.
No Smoking Day 2013 - Encourage your staff to quit!
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We've got a punning way for you to spread the word about your company and No Smoking Day 2013
- Download and print 'I quit' signs.
- Take a photograph of your staff standing together holding the signs
- Fill out the template press release with your details
- Contact your local newspapers, TV and radio with news about your event with the photo and press release.
Why not improve the health and wealth of your company and encourage your employees to quit this No Smoking Day, Wednesday 13 March 2013?
Stopping smoking is the single best thing you can do for your worker's heart health and with smokers taking on average two or three more sick days
a year than their non-smoking colleagues, why not get involved in the 30th anniversary of this successful health campaign?
This year smokers are being encouraged to 'swap their fags for swag', and consider what they could afford to buy if they were to quit for a day
(saving £7), a week (£49), a month (£210) and a year (£2,555). You could even play with the theme and help your staff, 'turn their pay... into a holiday!'
Start planning your very own company activity or event now and launch it on the official launch day on Wednesday 27 February, giving smokers two weeks to get
ready to quit on No Smoking Day itself.
Holding No Smoking Day activities could not only improve the profitability of your business, by boosting the health of your workforce, but it could raise the profile
of your company in the local media.
- Sign Up for exclusive organiser emails
- Get Organising! This year's No Smoking Day is on Wednesday 13 March 2013.
- Find all your No Smoking Day goodies - posters, leaflets, giveaways and more, in our shop.
- Keep wequit.co.uk in mind - our dedicated website for smokers, with a fantastic forum where people support each other to quit.
- Get inspired with top tips from Cecilia.
- Illustrate your event with images from our library.
- Check out what is available in our downloads section.
- Helpful resources for smokers.
- Our Swap Fags for Swag game for smokers is now live on WeQuit. If you would like to embed this game on your own site please read our how-to guide.
Valentine's Day – 14th February
Work with doctors to send out "valentines cards" to smokers ahead of No Smoking Day. The card might read "Love your heart and quit this No Smoking Day".
The card could contain stop smoking service details and encourage smokers to make a quit attempt on No Smoking Day.
Sports competitions
Hold sporting events where smokers make the swap from fags to a new healthy lifestyle. Or what about using Big Cig in a gym and have him swapped for sports equipment or
defeated by healthy ex-smokers? Big stunts will attract big publicity.
Sponsored quit
Why not encourage smokers to do a sponsored quit and raise money for their favourite charity? The British Heart Foundation accepts donations and helps millions of smokers
to deal with heart and circulatory diseases.
Kids' music videos
How about getting kids to create a music video about the dangers of smoking or the benefits of giving up? They could change the lyrics of a favourite song for example Paul
McCartney's Frog Song and record the result. A fun and engaging way to teach tobacco issues to children.
A leap of faith
Community support - Try working with different religious communities to support quitters. You could promote this year's theme to smokers from specific faith groups - a
great opportunity to talk about the effects of tobacco on the body.
