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Tobacco Detoxication Centre of "The Friends"a.s.b.l.

Mission

The tobacco detoxication centre of the "Friends of the Bordet Institute" A.S.B.L. is specialized in research, prevention and treatments related to nicotine dependence and tobacco behaviour.

 

Today, it is no more necessary to show that it is important to stop smoking:

- Indeed, tobacco consumption is the first avoidable cause of illness (such as cardiovascular disease and some cancers) and of death.
- In Belgium, the damaging effects of tobacco cause a death every half an hour and cost 1 billion Euros on average to the social security.
- In our country, tobacco consumption has been increasing since 1993. Now, 27% of Belgian people are daily smokers.

However, it has been observed that one Belgian out of 2 is not satisfied with that behaviour since he wants to stop smoking.
Among those who will try the smoking cessation, it has been observed that most of the smokers do it alone, without any medical and/or psychological aid. Within such a context, the relapse rate is extremely high (90% a year), which illustrates the difficulty of smoking cessation very well.
If the smoking cessation is made through a structured aid, the smoker's chances of success are double and even tripled.
It is from this angle that our centre develops tobacco detoxification aid programmes with preservation of abstinence adapted to very different target populations, in order to touch and meet the expectations of a maximum people.

 

Smoking cessation aid programme in professional environment

Since 1990, we have organized smoking cessation aid programmes in companies, both in the public and in the private sectors . Thanks to our experience, it has been observed that :
- This kind of initiative shows good results in terms of efficiency on the one hand
- It meets the expectations of both the company and the worker on the other.
Indeed, offering the smokers the possiblity to follow a tobacco detoxification programme on their working place has advantages for the smoker (accessiblity of the programme, social support of the smoker by his collegues, …) and for the company (decrease in the smoker/non-smoker conflicts, increase in productivity, decrease in absenteeism and in fire risks…)
Therefore, if you worry about the protection of the health of your employees in general and about cancer prevention in particular and if you want to introduce a tobacco management policy in your company, we can help you to do so in organizing a tobacco detoxification programme.

 

What does our programme consist of ?

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Relaxation programme in professional environment

While voluntary and involuntary smoking is harmful for the health, there is another curse -even more spread- which can cause physical and psychological problems : stress.
This is why, apart from tobacco detoxification programmes but still concerned by well-being at work, our team organises relaxation sessions. These sessions are intended for anybody who wants to take part in it and these take place within the company itself.
This programme is made up of an information session and of 3 relaxation workouts on the basis of on session a week, for 1 to 8 persons. The basic training (3 sessions) can be followed by additional sessions of improvement. Each participant will be given an audio-cassette (or a CD) including 2 different relaxations and a booklet.

 

Checking of this page : 11/2009