NHS Stop Smoking Campaign
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British Teens hold the key to quitting smoke addicts. A new survey shows that nearly half (46%) of teenagers whose parents smoke say they worry more about their parents smoking than anything else, including money, bullying and their parents divorcing.
The polling reveals that teenagers, of parents who smoke, are feeling increasingly responsible for their parents’ health with two thirds (65%) worried about their parents’ smoking and 88% concerned about the impact this has on their parents’ health. With nearly 9 in 10 learning about health at school, almost half (43%) claim they understand the risks of smoking better than their parents. Further findings show that:
• Nearly a third (29%) of teenagers feel they are the ‘health experts’ in the family
• Three quarters (75%) have asked or told their parents to stop
• And almost half (43%) are angry that their parents won’t listen to them
Stephen Carter-Woodhead, 15 years old from Huddersfield, said:
“As soon as I learned at school about what smoking can do to you, I was on at my mum about giving up. I was worried she might get cancer and also about the effects her smoking might have on us. It’s taken three years for her to take some action but I’m really proud that she has finally given up. Now I don’t have to worry anymore.”
In addition to feeling a burden of responsibility about their families health, parents smoking leads to feelings of frustration and anger, with a third (31%) of teenagers feeling most upset with their parents when they smoke and three quarters (75%) of teenagers ask their parents to stop. But 43% of them feel angry that their parents don’t listen to them, a third feel confused (32%) about why they smoke and just under a third (29%) feel frustrated that their parents don’t know how bad it is for them.
Paul Lambert, Local NHS Stop Smoking Adviser from Leeds, said:
“Teenagers take far more interest in the health of their loved ones than we might often think, and many referrals to local NHS Stop Smoking Services are as a result of teenagers telling their parents what they need to know – that smoking is harming them and their loved ones. We work with lots of families and provide flexible, tailored programmes to help them quit in a way that’s suitable to them. And smokers are four times more likely to go smokefree with local NHS Stop Smoking Service support.”
This research is being released to coincide with the launch of a new NHS advertising campaign based on teenagers’ worries. The NHS Smoking Helpline can be reached on 0800 169 0169 in the UK.
Qualitative feedback from local NHS Stop Smoking Services showed that many parents using local NHS Stop Smoking Services recognise the negative physical and mental impacts their smoking has on their teenagers and the benefits for them of going smokefree. Feedback also showed that the majority of local NHS Stop Smoking Advisers, who support parents to give up, say that parents cite their children as an influence on their decision to stop smoking.
NHS Smokefree facts on quitting:
• Three-quarters of smokers (74%) say they would like to quit if they could.
• 58% of smokers say that they intend to quit in the next 12 months.
• 86% of smokers cite at least one health reason for why they want to quit.
• 60% of current smokers have made a series attempt to quit in the past five years
• 53% of smokers have sought some kind of help or advice for quitting smoking.
• 87% of people who have attempted to stop smoking in the last year would like to stop smoking
• Heavy smokers are more likely to have tried to stop smoking (87%)
• 55 percent of smokers said that someone had asked them to stop smoking this tended to be a partner (22%), son or daughter (17%) or a parent (16%)
• Women were more likely than men to say that their children were asking them to quit (22% and 13% respectively)
• Only 7% of smokers who had previously managed to stop smoking, had quit for two years or more, while 72% had only managed to quit for six months or less.
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