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Employee Smoking
(TORONTO) Today is Weedless Wednesday—when anti-tobacco groups try to get people to give up smoking starting for just one day—and employers should help employees kick the habit, experts say.
The Weedless Wednesday campaign is part of National Non-Smoking Week, an annual campaign designed to get Canadians to stop smoking.
Often workplace smoking bans take effect on Jan. 1—either because of the employer’s choosing or to comply with municipal, provincial, or federal legislation. At the same time, many people make a New Year’s resolution to quit smoking.
Partly because of this, January is often a busy time for counsellors with employee assistance programs (EAPs), says Ceridian LifeWorks Services, a national EAP provider based in Toronto.
EAPs can help employers distribute generic information to employees about smoking bans and how to kick the habit, but counsellors deal with each smoker individually, says Kerri Corturillo, the company’s director of account management. “Quitting smoking is a very individual process. There are different factors that can affect a person’s ability to keep that resolution. That’s one of the things that we want to be able to do is to focus not only on the health piece of it, but what is it that motivates that individual to stay away from cigarettes. What are the things we can do to help them along the way?”
Corturillo says EAP counsellors can also provide moral support to people trying to quit, as well as information on community resources that can help them stop smoking.
She says that if employees ask their supervisor to help them quit, managers should offer their support and ask if there’s anything they can do to help them meet their goals.
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