Guide: Childrens Centres are smokefree

• Introduction
• Smokefree sites
• Start the session
• Why Children's Centres are smokefree
• What does smokefree mean?
• Your role
• What to say to a smokerA recap
• Body language
• Brief advice
• What is Brief Advice?
• Why is it important?
• What's in tobacco?
• Smoking in pregnancy
• Secondhand smoke (SHS) in the home is harmful to children
• Supporting smokers to quitVideo
• The Three AsA recap
• NHS Stop Smoking Services in Devon
• Other ways of getting help
• Take the test

What is Brief Advice?

Brief advice describes a short intervention (usually from 30 secs to 3 mins) delivered opportunistically and informally. It is known as ‘the three As’.

It can be used to raise awareness of and gauge a persons willingness to engage in further discussion about healthy lifestyle issues.

Brief advice involves giving information about the most effective way to change a lifestyle behaviour and how to access it.

This Brief Advice training will enable you to use the three As to:

• recognise the importance of raising the issue of smoking
• have confidence to raise the subject of smoking directly with people
• know where and how to signpost people for support to stop.