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The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 265 No 7128 p906
December 23/30, 2000 News

Boots anti-smoking initiative launched in Wales

The Welsh Assembly’s Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services (Dr Brian Gibbons) launched Boots the Chemists use of the Pro-change programme for helping people give up smoking in Wales on December 13. Pro-change is a scheme which enables people to identify their position in the psychological cycle involved in giving up smoking and helps them move through the remaining stages to achieving a non-smoking lifestyle.

Boots anti- smoking
At the launch (left to right) Peter Jones (South Wales regional manager, Boots), Brian Gibbons, Peter Gibson (public affairs director, Boots), Catherine Wetherup (tobacco control adviser, Welsh Assembly), Louise Budd (Pro-change customer adviser), Marc Phillips (chief executive, Tenovus cancer charity) and Ann Gough (Pro-change product manager)