Building a smokefree generation in York

The council has been allocated £195,000 in government funding to help expand its existing offer to residents and provide even more support to help people quit for good over the next five years.

Figures from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) show that smoking is costing York £109m a year. Most of this cost is the impact on local productivity, £66.1m, as smoking undermines the health of people during working age, with some dying before they reach retirement.

The service is being delivered by the Health Trainer team, which has a fantastic track record of helping people stop smoking, with a 74 per cent success rate of people not smoking four weeks after their ‘quit date’, which is the fourth highest in the country according to recent figures.