36th World No Tobacco ^Day

On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, the team from the tobacco cessation coordination unit at Caen Normandy University Hospital will be leaving the hospital walls and joining forces with the League Against Cancer – Calvados Committee and the city of Caen to meet with residents, answer the public's questions about tobacco, and offer free smoking cessation assessments.
This year's theme is "Let's Grow Food, Not Tobacco."

Event · Information booth on quitting smoking

• Information booth on smoking cessation with the tobacco cessation team from Caen Normandy University Hospital
• Free tobacco assessment : evaluation of dependence by the tobacco cessation team
• Presence at the League Against Cancer – Calvados Committee
• With the participation of the City of Caen and Caen la mer

CHU Zero tobacco, breathe!

The Caen Normandy University Hospital is taking action to protect the health of its patients and staff. To provide them with a healthy care and working environment, smoking is now prohibited throughout the hospital grounds, except in designated smoking shelters.

This measure applies to everyone: patients, visitors, and staff, and smoking shelters are installed outside of high-traffic areas.
As always, guidance and support are offered to patients and staff who smoke by the tobacco cessation coordination unit to help them quit.

Zero Tobacco University Hospital

Tobacco Free Health Center

Certified at Bronze level by RESPADD (Network of Health Establishments for the Prevention of ADDictions) in January 2020, the Caen Normandy University Hospital actively participates in the fight against smoking.

Among the major initiatives are:

The organization of an information day on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day on May 31;
The mobilization of teams throughout the month without tobacco (in November) , with the organization of actions, workshops, conferences, etc.
The ban on smoking in and in the immediate vicinity of the CHU Caen Normandie;
Reinforcement of anti-tobacco signage within the premises;
The installation of smoking shelters and tolerance zones around the establishment;
Support and monitoring of smokers (patients and professionals of the establishment) ;
Training to support smokers in prescribing nicotine replacement therapy;
Compliance with the tobacco-free hospital charter.

RESPADD Addiction Prevention Network

Information

To support and assist you, the tobacco cessation coordination unit at the Caen Normandy University Hospital offers smoking cessation consultations reimbursed by Health Insurance.