‘Smokeless campus’ smoking cessation intervention

Abstract

In February 2018, following ongoing consultation with students and staff and extensive work carried out by the Smokeless Campus Committee, Institute of Technology Carlow became a ‘Smokeless Campus’. This profile relates to the smoking cessation initiative implemented by the Nurse at IT Carlow, in providing on site consultation and support services at the college’s medical centre for students who require help to stop smoking .While the initiative is on-going and available to all students, this profile provides data on a group of 25 smokers who participated in a smoking cessation intervention programme .It explains the methods used to assist the students to stop smoking and the results obtained over a ten month period from March-December 2018 .The profile also provides quantitative data on brief interventions for smoking cessation (5A’s) carried out with all smokers who attend the student medical centre.