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World Mental Health Day

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Published at 08 October, 2020 08:00.

World Mental Health Day is a key day to have in your diary as 1 in 4 people will be affected by mental health conditions. 

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What is Stoptober?

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Published at 05 October, 2020 08:00.

Did you know one person quits smoking every 80 seconds in England?

You could be one of those people!

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Worried about your weight whilst trying to quit smoking?

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Published at 28 September, 2020 08:00.

This is one of the main worries we see people face when they start to quit smoking, we recommend facing one thing at a time.

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Urology Week

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Published at 21 September, 2020 08:00.

Did you know that 10% of daily medical care involves urology?
Urology covers a wide spectrum of medical conditions, from prostate cancer to incontinence.

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World Lymphoma Awareness Day

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Published at 14 September, 2020 08:00.

WLAD is on 15th Lymphoma is the UK’s fifth most common cancer, but do you know the symptoms?

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Blood Pressure Awareness Week

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Published at 07 September, 2020 11:05.

This week is know your numbers week, here at Yorkshire Smokefree we are onboard with testing our blood pressure and making sure we take the right steps to reach and maintain a healthy blood pressure.

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Vascular Disease Awareness Month

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Published at 01 September, 2020 12:00.

With the current global pandemic, vascular disease is something that everyone needs to be more aware of, mainly due to the fact that intravascular clotting, a disorder in which the proteins that control blood clotting become overactive, is a major complication of COVID-19 and presages a bad outcome.

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Pride Month - June 2020

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Published at 09 June, 2020 14:00.

A recent study was undertaken by Public Health England in 2016 and discovered that people within the LGBTQIA+ community are significantly more likely to start smoking earlier and heavier!

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