Be Smoke Free - Manchester
Training for professionals
If you want to reduce smoking and improve health in your community, we can help. We offer free training to healthcare professionals and employers, and you can refer people to our service for help.
Get in touch to find out more: community.bsfmanchester@cgl.org.uk
Information for employers
Be Smoke Free Manchester helps employers in all sectors raise awareness of the negative effects of smoking with their employees. We can deliver Very Brief Advice training to your staff and volunteers. We'll promote a smoke-free workplace culture and work directly with your staff on this. The training takes place online, and your staff will learn about:
- How treatment works
- Types of nicotine replacement therapy that are available
- The training we offer to staff who wish to become workplace smoking cessation advisors
- Referral pathways into our service
For more information or to book a 30-minute introduction session, please get in touch.
Email: community.bsfmanchester@cgl.org.uk
Phone: 0161 823 4157
Our sessions
We offer Very Brief Advice training; sessions on smoking during pregnancy; and smoking and mental health training. These sessions are typically delivered online, but if you’d rather we deliver a session in person in your workplace – just ask!
For more information and to register for a course, please email community.bsfmanchester@cgl.org.uk
Book free stop smoking training sessions
Brief advice - Manchester
How to encourage other people to make informed choices about smoking.
Who’s it for?
People who work with smokers and/or their families
What you’ll learn:
- How to encourage other people to make informed choices about smoking
- How to tell if someone’s ready to quit
- Treatment options and resources on offer.
- Common health conditions associated with smoking
- The long and short-term benefits of stopping smoking
- How to support someone who’s quitting
- How smoking affects public health
- How to refer people for help
Smoking in pregnancy - Manchester
How to give advice to pregnant people about smoking
Who’s it for?
People who work with pregnant smokers and/or their families
What you’ll learn
- The effects of smoking while pregnant
- How to give advice to pregnant people about smoking
- How to refer people for help
Very Brief Advice introductory video
Our freely available training video offers basic guidance on how to provide Very Brief Advice to people who would like to stop smoking, and ways to refer people into the Be Smoke Free service.
Quit Manager
We use a system called Quit Manager for referrals. We can add professionals to this system so that you can refer people directly.
Please email manchesterbesmokefree@cgl.org.uk if you'd like to be added to the system.