CORPORATE PROGRAMMES

With ever increasing pressure from government on eliminating smoking in public places, companies are faced with new challenges in terms of maintaining the balance between being legally compliant and accommodating smokers within their organization. Many smoking facilities are not in compliance with legal requirements and the cost of bringing them into compliance is too high. Smokenders® presents a mature, well-paced alternative in the form of a programme that gives smokers all the tools and necessary experience to become non-smokers permanently.

This benefits BOTH the company and their staff.

According to our research, the average smoker smokes 5 cigarettes per day in companies with designated smoking areas. This person will leave their place of work for at least 20 minutes to make tea/coffee/purchase a cooldrink, call a friend to join them, have their smoke and return to their station. PER CIGARETTE!

To your company:

• Increased productivity - Staff staying at their work stations and taking their allocated work breaks.
• Decreased Absenteeism - The average smoker has a 33,3% higher absenteeism rate than the non-smoker.
• Decreased Employee Turnover - The smoker has a shortened career by an average of 9.1%.
• Decreased Operating and Maintenance Costs - No additional expenses in facilitating compliant smoking rooms and the cleaning of smoking rooms for staff.

To your smoking staff:

• Increased energy - Stopping smoking results in an increase in energy levels
• Enhanced concentration, alertness and mental clarity - Stopping smoking allows for oxygen and carbon monoxide levels to normalise
• Greater self-esteem, self-respect and self-worth - Result of stopping smoking
• Increased productivity - Less time away from workstation (no more smoke breaks)
• New life skills and coping mechanisms - Knowledge, learning and tools given within the Smokenders programme

To your non smoking staff:

• Less friction with smoking colleagues - No animosity with regards to smokers taking more breaks
• Increased concentration - Focus on work and not other colleagues

Smokenders® consistently has an overall success rate of over 92%. Even after three years or more, an amazing 70% of our graduates still do not smoke and are totally indifferent to cigarettes and other smokers. A long term success rate well below the 20% mark is what can be expected when smokers try the 'quick fixes', including NRT's (Nicotine Replacement Therapy), and other alternative smoking cessation measures.

At Smokenders® we are all smokers who battled to stop smoking and finally quit with Smokenders®. Our years of experience as smokers, and the subsequent training based on research and education, means a lot of empathy and understanding to help our smokers attain and maintain a new healthy life. Smokenders® Corporate Trainers are qualified Life Coaches in order to maintain the standard of training and fully support the participants.

With Smokenders® you can stop and stay stopped.

The Smokenders® programme is a mature and well-paced programme that deals very gently with smokers over a period of six weeks. The participants attend a one hour meeting, twice weekly. Participants continue to smoke up to week five and the sixth week is to ensure that their new non-smoking behaviour is self-supportive.

In that time, we help smokers to:

• Close down the addiction, so that when they stop smoking they have absolutely no nicotine withdrawal.
• Minimise any ill effects by showing them how to get rid of tobacco's 4700 chemicals (600 toxic, 63 carcinogenic, and mutagens that cause permanent genetic changes) by detoxifying in different ways.
• Give smokers an understanding of the mechanisms of smoking and addiction so that they can deal with stress and emotional issues from a point of self-knowledge.
• Explode the false beliefs that smokers have about smoking and stopping smoking that have been propagated by tobacco companies and passed on through generations.
• Educate, motivate, support and encourage smokers through the process of reconstructing their lives to live as free non smokers, not ex smokers who spend years postponing and denying themselves the pleasure of a smoke.

How it works

• Introductory talk: Smokenders® begin by offering a 45 minute, entertaining, informative, explanatory talk at your premises to all smokers and non-smokers.
• Time frame: Attendance at one hour training, twice a week for six weeks.
• Minimum requirements: A minimum of 10 participants is required for a Smokenders programme to proceed.
• Logistics: The company provides a training room, allocation of time during working hours for attendance, a flip chart/whiteboard, access to TV/DVD facilities for week 5, water jugs and glasses.

Smokenders® provides for each candidate a full set of class materials and notes for six meetings as well as ongoing support and counselling.

Smokenders® recommend that your company DOES NOT provide the programme free of charge to employees, as it is our experience that payment for the programme is part of the commitment by the smoker to stop smoking. Assistance for non-Vitality members in the form of paying a portion thereof of in the form of staff loans or incentives is helpful.

There are 2 different cost structures as shown below:

• R 2500.00 per person.
• R 500.00 per person for VITALITY members. All VITALITY members must produce their Vitality membership card and ID books at enrolment in order to qualify for the once-offactivation fee.
• * All quoted prices are exclusive of VAT

Enrolment takes place at the end of the introductory talk and the full fee is payable at the start of the programme.

For more information, or to set up an in-house introductory talk, please phone Mercia Axon on 011 487 0231 or e-mail mercia@smokenders.co.za

Thank you for granting Smokenders® the opportunity of showing you the way to create a healthy smoke-free environment for the benefit of both your company and staff.

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