South West Healthcare is using next week’s World No Tobacco Day to encourage more smokers to give up the habit.
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Warrnambool Community Health respiratory nurse Sarah Irving will have a booth set up between 10am-2pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week in the foyer.
Ms Irving said her focus was on letting people know about the support available.
“A lot of people know smoking is bad but they don’t really know about some of the support and products out there,” she said.
“There are medications, nicotine-replacement therapy products and South West Healthcare has a fee-free smoking cessation clinic for people who want to quit.”
Ms Irving said staff try to identify all smokers who come into contact with the hospital to offer them counselling and treatment to help break their addiction.
World No Tobacco Day, organised by the World Health Organisation, is on Tuesday May 31.
