Lifestyle
Tobacco and Smoking
- 26.9% of Southwark adults aged 16 and over smoke, compared to 22.2% in England. This equates to some 62,300 smokers in the borough.
- Smoking causes 301 deaths in Southwark every year (a rate of 255 per 100,000 people aged 35+ compared to 207 in England).
- Between 19% and 25% of smokers are willing to try to give up smoking at any point in time . This would suggest that there are currently between 11,800 and 15,600 people willing to give up smoking in Southwark.
- The estimated cost of smoking in Southwark is 19 million to the NHS, 96 million to the economy and 290 million in total value.
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Recommendations
- Benchmark level of investment in stop smoking services to ensure sufficient resources are being invested into this area
- Ensure correct balance of outcomes from specialist, group and individual work
- Review and revise approaches to best achieve community outreach
- Ensure that hospital patients are being supported to quit smoking and that hospitals are skilled to provide the service
- Develop more collaborative working relationship with acute trusts as there is greater potential and incentive for people using acute services to access smoking cessation services both as part for reducing post operative complications and as part of holistic approaches to secondary prevention
Source: Tobacco and smoking JSNA 2009
| Date | File Name | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2008/09 | Tobacco and Smoking JSNA |
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| 2010 | Local tobacco control profile for England - Southwark |
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