{"id":4025,"date":"2009-08-13T13:31:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T13:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/08\/13\/smokers-urged-to-quit-for-ramadan\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:39:51","slug":"smokers-urged-to-quit-for-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/13\/smokers-urged-to-quit-for-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Smokers urged to quit for Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Campaign targets British Muslims ahead of fasting month<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"180\" height=\"276\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/StopsmokingRamadan_180x232.jpg\"\/>MUSLIMS preparing for the fasting month of Ramadan are being encouraged to quit smoking for good.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>NHS stop smoking services in Birmingham have launched a seasonal campaign designed to get observant Muslims to quit in readiness for the fast.\u00a0Most people know that many Muslims give up food and drink in daylight hours during Ramadan, but a lot of people don\u2019t realise that smoking also forms part of the fast.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Now Muslim smokers who want to quit are being targeted by a new campaign, using a distinctive \u201cad bike\u201d, a poster campaign and face-to-face discussions with smoking cessation advisors.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Dale Ricketts, the PCT\u2019s smoking cessation manager, said:<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cIn previous years we\u2019ve worked with people who wanted to quit in readiness for Ramadan, and we always hear that the extra support from our advisors makes it easier to give up before the fast.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cLots of people find that if they can give up for daylight hours, they\u2019re most of the way to quitting altogether, so it is a popular time for people to try to give up.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Birmingham\u2019s stop smoking services see increases in demand around Ramadan and Eid, and also in January as more people try to kick the habit at these times of year.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign targets British Muslims ahead of fasting month MUSLIMS preparing for the fasting month of Ramadan are being encouraged to quit smoking for good. &#13; NHS stop smoking services in Birmingham have launched a seasonal campaign designed to get observant Muslims to quit in readiness for the fast.\u00a0Most people know that many Muslims give up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}