Quitfit

Organisation:  West Fife LHCC (Local Health Care Co-operative)
Lead/ Main Contact:  Belinda Morgan / Margaret Bell
Duration:  4 years (Aug 2003-July 2007)  
Target Group:  Low Income

Project Profile:
A project to support smoking cessation within an area of high deprivation, linking local health visitors, community pharmacists and the local leisure centre. The target group were offered an 8-12 week smoking cessation programme, seeing a health visitor and pharmacist for motivational support. This ran in parallel with an individually tailored exercise programme to help develop and support a healthy lifestyle with the provision of family discount cards for access to leisure facilities.

The Executive Summary and Final Report of this project are available upon request via enquiries@ashscotland.org.uk.