Women and Smoking

Published: Tuesday, June 02, 2015

On 29 May the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) launched their report We Can Quit which highlights an innovative smoking cessation project with women in the Blanchardstown area with very good results. NWCI were delighted to attend teh launch.

More women in Ireland die from lung cancer than breast cancer so ICS decided to look at new and creative ways to tackle smoking crisis amongst women.

We Can Quit Programme was created as a community based approach to support smoking cessation among women from socially and economically disadvantaged communities where smoking rates are higher. The 12 week Programme was developed by ICS in partnership with NWCI, the Institute of Public Health Ireland, HSE and local stakeholders. The We Can Quit model takes a woman centred approach to smoking cessation and comes from an understating that gender is a key determinant in the success of smoking cessation programmes.

To view report log onto the website.