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After 30 years building GASP up from a pressure group to the successful international business it is today GASP director Cecilia Farren hands control of the business over to new director Tim Farnfield. Cecilia stays on as a consultant to help guide Tim as he strives to take the GASP brand further.

Check out the NEW GASP blog!

Here we will be adding items and articles about smoking, giving up smoking and smoke free solutions.

click on this link to find out more  http://smokefreesolutions.blogspot.com/

Check out the brand new Smoke Free Solutions Blog brought to you by GASP

click HERE to read our new blog where you can find out all sorts of information about staying smoke free

2 new DVDs have been produced exclusively for GASP based on two of our successful leaflets.

The first is based on the ‘10 top reasons to stay smoke free’ leaflet and is for ages 9 and above. It is a lively and humorous look at tobacco’s impact on health, wealth, complexion, pollution, addiction, fitness and freedom.
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The other is based on the ‘Tips to help you quit’ leaflet and display and is aimed at helping people who already smoke to quit. Using animation and interviews it presents a selection of tried and tested ideas to help a smoker to prepare for stopping smoking.
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Trade in your old CO monitor

Measuring breath carbon monoxide as part of any stop smoking programme is an effective way of motivating patients and charting their progress. Save your service money by trading-in any old CO monitor for a brand new Micro+ or piCO+Smokerlyzer®. Also contact us for special offers on mouthpieces and D-pieces.

Cecilia Farren made a member of the Faculty of Public Health

Cecilia Farren Director of GASP was awarded Membership of the Faculty of Public Health (by Distinction) of the Royal College of Physicians for her many years of tobacco control advocacy and campaigning.  Cecilia was presented with her certificate of membership by Professor Rod Griffiths, the President at a Faculty ceremony.  Cecilia commented, “I was so proud to be nominated by consultants in Public Health in the South West with whom I have campaigned as part of an active South West ASH branch. I am now entitled to use the prestigious letters MFPH after my name.”    

 

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A wealth of new articles in the articles section, including a fact sheet to go with our Tar in a Jar, some really helpful links for Smokerlyzer users and an interesting article on where Toxins in Tobacco smoke come from.

GASP’s Blokes who Smoke Stop Smoking Challenge

GASP reached into the industrial heartland of Bristol’s inner city workshops and warehouses on No Smoking Day with a stall for Blokes who Smoke.  Staff from GASP offered CO breath testing, one-to-one stop smoking advice and ‘Blokes who Smoke’ goody bags of information and gifts.  GASP also referred blokes who no longer want to smoke to the local NHS stop smoking services. Over twenty men visited the stall, including couriers, for this small but successful event.

GASP helped FRESH North East

GASPhelped FRESH North East to launch their No Smoking Day ‘Great Challenge’ by making a giant cigarette to be stubbed out on a target heart.  The launch was on Valentine’s Day so it linked the heart with the No Smoking Day target image.

The picture shows the heart posing beside the iconic Angel of the North. 

 NEW ARTICLES

There are now 2 new articles available here

One has some tips on how to run a 'No Smoking Day' stall and is split into two parts.
The other contains tips on how to market your 'No Smoking Day' events towards the 'hard to reach' groups of smokers

GASP is now fully international.

With the success of the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention for Tobacco Control signed by almost 200 countries, there is increasing demand for tobacco control resources worldwide. GASP has translated some popular resources into European and Asian languages and now has prices in Euros and dollars to meet the demand from the global market.

It was a busy year for GASP. UKsmokefree legislation put a high demand for GASP’s products. GASP’s Big Cig strutted his stuff around the streets of many UKtowns and cities. In the county of Dorset in Southern England, Big Cig met a nasty end when the public voted to get him ‘fired’. He went on the run in the woods but was tracked down and shot with paintballs.  See the video of his tragic end at www.goodbyebigcig.nhs.uk   

The new APRIL Age Progression software has provided many smokers with a look to the future.

The software digitally ages a photo to show just how smoking can prematurely wrinkle and damage the skin. GASP not only sells the software but will also come and run a roadshow for you with a trained technician. We can arrange a trial for you. You can also send us you own digital photo that we can age for you! Scarey!

GASP played a role in making No Smoking Day a big success. In summer of 2007 Cecilia Farren from GASP was awarded membership by distinction of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians. This was in recognition of her many years tobacco control advocacy. GASP's website was selected to be part of the UK Web Archiving Consortium Project and Wellcome Library to represent aspects of UKdocumentary heritage needs. If you need help with a project or campaign, GASP is happy to help. Whatever you need - just ask.