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Black Minority Ethnic Groups & Smoking
> Aims & Services
The Aim of Services for BME Groups
- To develop tobacco education and training opportunities for BME Groups in Sandwell
- To support and facilitate community based tobacco work within the BME communities
- To form partnerships in the community that will increase awareness and the number of people wanting quit
- Greater accessibility and clarity of our services
Services Available
- Advice on quitting smoking in your own language via an interpreting service
- Confidential support in groups and one to one clinics in Sandwell
- Specialist stop smoking service for smokers from all communities
- Awareness sessions for groups in the community about smoking
- Community health workers are available in various community organisations who can now deliver Sandwell Stop Smoking services.
- Free Training for workers working with BME groups
Good Practice
- We are interested in BME Community Projects in Sandwell in order to bring about health awareness in Smoking in BME groups
- We would like to incorporate "giving up" with Ramadan and evaluate projects
- We would like to share good practice with organisation working with BME groups
- We are aware of need to provide a culturally sensitive and linguistic service.
- For more information about giving up in different languages click here to visit the website www.givingupsmoking.co.uk
If you would like to make an appointment freephone 0800 073 1388
To speak to someone in your own language contact the National Quit Line on the following numbers:
- > Urdu - 0800 169 0881
- > Punjabi - 0800 169 0882
- > Hindi - 0800 169 0883
- > Gurati - 0800 169 0884
- > Bengali - 0800 169 0885
- > English - 0800 169 0169
Did You Know?
41% of Bangladeshi men smoke compared to 28% in the general male population
A quarter of Bangladeshi women Chew Tobacco 34% of men in the black Caribbean communities smoke
Women from all BME groups are less likely to stop smoking than women in general.
British Heart Foundation 2004