Fit4Work: a smoking policy supports your employees who want to quit
Want to help your employees stop smoking? Simply banning smoking at work is not enough. So what is? Motivate your team members to stop smoking or vaping. Raise awareness with empathy and provide better support for those trying to quit.
Why is a smoke-free workplace important?
64% of smokers want to quit. Most of them need several attempts to succeed. What’s more, doing so alone can be harder.
A general ban won’t be enough to help your smokers. You must also pay attention to information and education. Support attempts to quit and establish smoke-free premises.
With a sustainable smoking policy, you can truly help your employees quit successfully. You also gain more valuable working time and improve your image as a healthy company.
How do you set up a smoking policy for your organisation?
Want to encourage smoking cessation at work? Start with a well-thought-out policy with effective actions to make quitting easier.
- Chart your current situation. What are your employees’ smoking habits? What is your policy right now? Are you already taking action to encourage attempts to quit?
- Draw up plans for a smoking policy. Address the situation systematically. Meet the needs of your employees, your organisation and your legal obligations.
- Offer quitting help. Encourage smokers to take part in our professional modules to encourage smoking cessation, such as information sessions or a quitting plan.
- Create support. Most resistance is due to lack of information. Raise your employees’ awareness and focus on motivation. To increase their chances of success, smokers need to truly want to quit.
Want to get started on a supportive smoking policy with Fit4Work?
How can IDEWE help your employees quit smoking?
Our Fit4Work experts use a diverse range of services to support you and your employees in adopting a healthier lifestyle. Both during and outside of work.
Highlight the importance of smoking cessation with free awareness materials
- ‘Not smoking ... my freedom’ poster
- ‘It’s never too late to stop smoking’ brochure
Use a challenge or workshop to engage your employees
- Keynote by (former) elite athlete
- Workshops such as:
- ‘Smoking’: what persistent smoking myths are there? Are you ready to take the step and quit? This session addresses such aspects.
- ‘Promoting smoking cessation’: provide your smokers with support, techniques and tools to help them quit.
These workshops consist of three modules.
Tailored guidance for your team or individual employees
- Team process:
- Use a Company Fit Profile to identify what your organisation is doing in terms of health promotion.
- Encourage your employees to participate in healthy challenges.
- Personal process:
- Offer your employees personalised guidance with individual coaching, fitness measurements and e-learning modules.
Which path to a smoke-free organisation will you take?
What can you start doing yourself as an employer?
- Make your work site smoke-free: enforce a strict smoking ban.
- Encourage smokers who want to quit to support each other and organise shared quitting initiatives to increase their chance of success.
- Offer to reimburse smoking cessation products.
Want to help your employees stop smoking?
Use this form to propose a challenge to our experts or request your materials, workshop or process.