Underage Smokers Offered Money to Stop Smoking

The NHS in Brighton and Hove is to offer underage smokers cash to stop smoking.

Smokers under 18 years of age will be offered £15 in vouchers if they successfully stop smoking.

Those running the stop smoking scheme have said that although the amount of money isn’t great, it can often be enough to motivate someone who is thinking of stopping smoking to ask for help.

Under 18’s are often influenced greatly by peer pressure, and the financial benefit of the scheme may give the idea of stopping smoking a more ‘street credible’ edge.

Children as young as ten years old have taken advantage of the scheme since its inception.

It is reported that one in every hundred children aged 11 regularly smoke in the Brighton and Hove area, with that percentage rising to 20% by the time the children reach 15 years of age.

The scheme also pays pregnant teenage girls to stop smoking.

Author: Paul Douglass D.Hyp. Adv. MIAPH Acc. (Avon Hypnotherapy)
Article Date: 23rd February 2009

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