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Division of Community Health
Division of Community Health

The Center For Smoking Prevention and Cessation

Our Vision

To reduce morbidity and mortality attributed to cigarette smoking in the Negev region.

Smoking cigarettes is the first cause of death that can be prevented.

One of every four adults in Israel smokes.

This number i​ncreases when the population goes younger, especially in the Negev region.

The reported aged by teenagers of smoking is 9 years old!

Smoking is well known as a primary cause for life quality damaging diseases, and high mortality.

Therefore, a center for smoking prevention and cession was established, in order to unite all the health services together for preventing smoking in the Negev, and to reduce smoking damage

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Goals

Our main goal – Life quality improvement of the Negev population by reducing the mortality and sickness caused by smoking.

Cessation facility in every primary care clinic, work place and hospital.

Students take an active role.

The four sick funds ongoing cooperation with the university.

Formal smoking prevention programs for school-aged children.

Free public non-smoking enforcement.

Objectives

To initiate cooperation between the various medical services providers and public institutes in smoking cessation promotion.

To promote smoking prohibition in public places, in concordance with local authorities

To establish a “hot-line” for smoking cessation counseling.

Foundation of a regional center for smoking cessation counseling:

  • personal counseling
  • group therapy

To educate a new generation of non-smoking consultants for smoking cessation

To encourage smoking prevention and cessation in the regional education system.

To raise smokers awareness to the various cessation possibilities offered.

To publish professional and educational information to the public and medical community.

Smoking Cessation

Formal University Course for Smoking Cessation Consultants

22 students: Physicians, nurses, social workers

Jews ,Bedouins, Arabs

Multi-language

14 meetings + 10 hrs practicum

Personal advisors, group therapy guides

Smoking Cessation Promotion

Conferences - sick funds, schools, university, factories

Group Therapy - sick funds, factories, university fund

Special Projects

Original Special Project

Smoking cessation for hospitalized patients:

Faculty of Health Sciences students

Soroka University Medical Center

Formal students education

Cooperation with medical staff

Goal: To attach patients to appropriate cessation facility

Additional Special Projects

  • Enforcement of smoking prohibition conference
  • Ben-Gurion University Smoking-Free Campus
  • Medical and Nursing students involvement in hospitalized smoking cessation

Population & Methods

Smokers and non-smokers of the Negev region.

Establishment of an executive committee with representatives from:

  • The four Sick funds
  • Local Ministry of Health
  • Ministry of Health main office
  • University
  • Municipalities
  • Israel Cancer Society

Establishment of formal courses to educate smoking cessation consultants

Primary professional teams

Smoking cessation protocols

Independent primary health system

Publications

Support and manage and coordinate already running programs
Finding ongoing financial support after the initial Ministry of Health support