Team up and go for GOLD
By Karyn Borman, Smokefree Coordinator. Tauranga Assessment Planning Unit – BRONZE (5 referrals)
In this issue we continue to track our top
people and teams referring patients for quit
smoking support. Tauranga Medical Daystay – BRONZE (4 referrals)
April’s top teams
Whakatāne ED – GOLD (12 referrals)
Tauranga ED – SILVER (8 referrals)
Tauranga Transit Lounge – BRONZE (3 referrals)
Top referrers for the month were Whakatāne ED Nurse Erica Lee,
Tauranga ED Associate Clinical Nurse Manager Maria Clark and
Tauranga Sexual Health Clinic Specialty Nurse Sarah Abdool-
Raheem.
Quit smoking support for staff
Tauranga Ward 4a Paediatrics – BRONZE (3 referrals) Did you know free quit smoking support is available for staff and
contractors. Contact Karyn Borman on 8476 or smokefree@
bopdhb.govt.nz or. Your details are confidential.
Top referrers for the month were Tauranga ED Nurse Belinda
Gasteen and Whakatāne ED Nurse Erica Lee. Or contact our local stop smoking service, Hāpainga on 0800
HAPAINGA (0800 427 246) or [email protected].
Tauranga Maternity – BRONZE (5 referrals)
May’s top teams
Tauranga ED – GOLD (22 referrals)
Whakatāne ED – GOLD (14 referrals)
GOLD (10+ referrals)
SILVER (6 + referrals)
Tauranga Maternity – GOLD (11 referrals)
Tauranga Surgical Admissions Unit – SILVER (6 referrals)
BRONZE (3+ referrals)
Tauranga Sexual Health Clinic – BRONZE – (5 referrals)
Boost in people signing up to quit smoking
About 70 people signed up to receive quit
smoking support from Hāpainga Stop Smoking
service at events celebrating World Smokefree
Day (WSFD) across the region.
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New Zealand is moving closer to Smokefree Aotearoa 2025. The
most recent tobacco-use figures show 84% of New Zealanders
do not smoke, which is 4% more than in 2008. And fewer young
people are starting to smoke with 96% of 15 to 17 year olds staying
smokefree, which is a marked increase from 84% a decade ago.
The Western Bay Smokefree Coalition had staff out and about
spreading the smokefree message including in shopping malls
and supermarkets. While in the Eastern Bay events were held in
Whakatāne, Ōpōtiki, Kawerau and Te Teko with spot prizes up for
grabs for those opting to sign up to quit.