Free medicine helped Janni to stop smoking after 28 years.

Free medication helped Janni stop smoking after 28 years

The northwest Jutland municipality is experiencing great success and high demand for free smoking cessation medication.

Janni Stougaard is one of them who has received help to quit smoking. (Photo: © Private photo) 24 minutes ago

Free smoking cessation medication is a hit.

Thisted Municipality has so far conducted two sessions with a total of 20 participants - 19 of the participants have accepted the offer of free smoking cessation medication.

At the same time, there is great demand in the municipality for new sessions for the program, and therefore two new sessions are now being started, where participants will be offered free smoking cessation medication.

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> It has certainly had a significant impact that I could go to the pharmacy

> and get the patches for free

> Janni Stougaard, former smoker

The initiative is part of Cancer Plan 5, which contains 36 initiatives and three goals, which aim to strengthen the cancer area. One of the initiatives is to provide free smoking cessation medication, for which 10 million kroner has been set aside this year for the municipalities in the country.

One of the participants in one of Thisted Municipality's sessions is Janni Stougaard, who has been a smoker for 28 years, but who has now greatly benefited from the new initiative.

- Nicotine patches for seven days cost 190 kroner, and of course it is still cheaper than smoking, but it has certainly had a significant impact that I could go to the pharmacy and get the patches for free, she says.

Torben Overgaard from Conservatives is chairman of the Health, Culture and Leisure Committee in Thisted Municipality and is pleased with the new initiative.

- For every time we can get someone to stop smoking, we know that it has real benefits for our health - not just in Thisted Municipality, but throughout the country, he says.

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Money well spent

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Also in Cancer Society, they view free smoking cessation medication positively, says project manager in Cancer Society, Nina Krogh Larsen.

- It is experienced as an investment. Participants are grateful that the municipality believes in them and invests in their quit. They feel extra committed to making an effort. So we certainly think that it is money well spent, because it helps more people to become smoke-free.

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> If we can just get a few to stop smoking with the help of this, I also believe that it is something that can be found money for in the future health budget

> Torben Overgaard (C), chairman of the Health, Culture and Leisure Committee in

> Thisted Municipality

Janni Stougaard was encouraged by her daughter in February to stop smoking, and since she started the new program in the municipality in August, she has not smoked a single cigarette.

- It's great. I have a lot of time that I used to spend smoking. I can feel it on my sense of smell, my sense of taste and on my condition. I'm not as winded when I walk, so there has been a lot of good coming out of it.

The free smoking cessation medication will be free until 2027. After that, it will be determined how the cost will be distributed between regions and municipalities with the new health councils.

- Now we have to see if the success is due to the fact that it is new and exciting, or if the success continues. If we can just get a few to stop smoking with the help of this, I also believe that it is something that can be found money for in the future health budget, says Torben Overgaard.

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