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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 bring them into compliance is too high. Smokenders presents a mature, well-placed 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!

Smokenders Corporate Division focuses exclusively within the corporate and wellness environment, guiding small and large businesses to achieve a smoke-free staff by conducting its smoking cessation programme on the company's premises.

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 form 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

With Smokenders you can stop, and stay stopped!