I'm in agreement with sigisgrim. I rarely visited pubs when smoking was allowed, simply because the fact that it was allowed meant that people did it, and this made pubs in general an unpleasant and unhealthy environment for non-smokers. There were at that point a few enlightened pubs which allowed smoking in one half but not the other, and that suited most people on the whole, but not every pub is set up in such a way as to make that practicable.
When I talk about smoking cessation programmes, I'm not really thinking about blanket bans, although there is evidence that they help to some extent; they work on the basis that it is easier for a certain proportion of smokers to give up if they are in a situation where they can't smoke whenever the urge hits them. (Obviously not everyone is like that. We have here at work one researcher who smokes heavily and regularly pops outside for five minutes to have a cigarette, and one of the administrative staff who is a moderate smoker and can manage perfectly well having one or two at lunchtime and the rest of her cigarette intake outside office hours.) But what I really mean is stuff like nicotine replacement therapy and/or group advice/counselling sessions; these each work quite well on their own, but when combined they have a much higher success rate. My ex-boss could give you the figures.
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Date: 2009-01-21 01:20 pm (UTC)When I talk about smoking cessation programmes, I'm not really thinking about blanket bans, although there is evidence that they help to some extent; they work on the basis that it is easier for a certain proportion of smokers to give up if they are in a situation where they can't smoke whenever the urge hits them. (Obviously not everyone is like that. We have here at work one researcher who smokes heavily and regularly pops outside for five minutes to have a cigarette, and one of the administrative staff who is a moderate smoker and can manage perfectly well having one or two at lunchtime and the rest of her cigarette intake outside office hours.) But what I really mean is stuff like nicotine replacement therapy and/or group advice/counselling sessions; these each work quite well on their own, but when combined they have a much higher success rate. My ex-boss could give you the figures.