Copeland Health Profile 2010 - Cumbria County Council
Copeland Health Profile 2010 - Cumbria County Council
Copeland Health Profile 2010 - Cumbria County Council
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Figure 21: Smoking status by GP practice, June <strong>2010</strong><br />
Smoking status by practice: current smoker<br />
20%<br />
17% 17% 17% 16% 15% 14% 14% 14% 14%<br />
Lowther<br />
Medical<br />
Centre<br />
Flatt Walks<br />
<strong>Health</strong><br />
Centre<br />
Church<br />
Street<br />
Surgery<br />
Beech<br />
House<br />
Group<br />
Practice<br />
Westcroft<br />
House<br />
Drs Timney<br />
& Westhead<br />
Catherine<br />
Street<br />
Surgery<br />
Distington<br />
Seascale<br />
<strong>Health</strong><br />
Centre<br />
Ironside &<br />
Ironside<br />
It is difficult to quantify the number of people who smoke. Figure 21 takes data from GP<br />
practice registers. This shows the number of patients aged 16 and over, whose smoking<br />
status has been recorded in the last 15 months with latest status recorded as current smoker.<br />
Smokers ranged from 20% of the register to 14%. Using this methodology almost 7,000<br />
current smokers had visited their GP.<br />
Data collected by the <strong>Cumbria</strong> Stop Smoking Service sows that during the financial year<br />
2009/10, 1,167 residents of <strong>Copeland</strong> approached the service for help with quitting smoking.<br />
Of these just over two thirds successful quit smoking. Just over one fifth were unsuccessful.<br />
Another source of smoking data is the local tobacco control profiles produced by the<br />
Association of Public <strong>Health</strong> Observatories. Results for <strong>Copeland</strong> are shown in figures 21<br />
and 22.<br />
Figure 21: Local tobacco control profile, part 1<br />
<strong>Copeland</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Profile</strong><br />
J Clay<br />
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