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UK: 14-Year-Old Students Given Nicotine Patches to Kick Smoking [08/13-2]
Excerpts from: Nicotine Patches for 14-Year-Olds in Stop Smoking Scheme
By Tom Wilkinson The Scotsman [08/13/04]
Children as young as 14 have been given nicotine patches in a successful scheme to stop them smoking, it emerged today.
More teenagers want to join the scheme run by County Durham health worker Jaimie Battye and school nurse Moya White, who were approached by the youngsters to help them kick the deadly habit.
Before they embark on the course, teenagers have to confess to their parents that they are smokers and must have their consent, as well as their GP’s backing.
Some admitted they funded their habit by using their dinner money and then selling on cigarettes to friends.
Miss Battye, who works for the Sure Start scheme in Stanley, has helped four 14-year-old girls from Greencroft School, Annfield Plain to quit this summer.
She hoped to expand the scheme help more youngsters stop smoking.
She said she was approached by the young smokers to help them quit after they saw information about the dangers of tobacco.
“The health benefits of stopping when they have not been smoking long are phenomenal,” she said. “We shouldn’t wait until they have been smoking for 10 years to help.”
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