Today across Greater Manchester different events were being run to promote No Smoking Day.
Over in Bolton, the community fire safety team got involved with the Bolton Stop Smoking service and Bolton One aka ‘The Jason Kenny Centre’. It was the first event I’ve actually been put in charge of running on the day so was feeling a bit anxious this morning before it began.
As we set up myself and two others - apprentice Caitlin Alcock and a Prince’s Trust work experience Brendan Johnson - began to think we’d have a quiet day but surprisingly we were swamped with people asking for fire safety advice and help with quitting smoking.
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The No Smoking Day event offered advice and information
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Throughout the day we was giving out advice and filling out Home Safety Check forms. At dinner the fitness team from the gym came over to do blood pressure checks and found fire service staff eating burgers for their lunch. Let’s just say we had a lot of banter with the fitness instructors over the burgers.
After a while the fitness team asked us if we wanted to have our blood pressure checked as not many members of the public wanted to try - we even did a smoker's breath test which is to find out how much your lungs are effected with smoking. I don't smoking which means my lungs were ok.
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| Gary (left) has his blood pressure checked |
All in all was a fun day meeting members of public and working with the partners in the NHS and Bolton One promoting not only No Smoking Day but talking about what we do now in the community to help people.
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