Smoking Cessation Facilitator.

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£20k, 30 hours a week. They want someone eductaed to degree level, which I am. And whilst my current job is nice, it's very poorly paid and the library hierarchy is shocking. For some reason I'm very much drawn to a job helping people quit smoking... What do you reckon would be involved and should I enquire/apply?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 June 2003 11:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Definitely! What exactly would you have to do?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 2 June 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Stop people smoking, I think. Not sure how. And arrange for people who want to stop smoking to come and do so. It all seems very odd.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 June 2003 11:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well i figured you'd have a hand in that, but i wondered if you knew anymore details. I would def enquire & ask for an application form. What have you got to lose? If you go through the recruitment process & are successful, you don't have to take the job!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 2 June 2003 11:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Indeed!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 June 2003 11:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

You're going to be a fireman? Cool!

― Alfie (Alfie), Monday, 2 June 2003 11:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am? Wow!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 June 2003 12:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

maybe that's how you get them to stop!

i. say "no smoke without fire"
ii. take aim with flamethrower...

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 2 June 2003 12:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

I shall email for an application pack forthwith. Posthaste. Pronto.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 June 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I envisage Clockwork Orange style aversion therapy

― robster (robster), Monday, 2 June 2003 12:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Stabbing fags in peoples' eyes? Cool.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 2 June 2003 12:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was thinking more smoking/forced to view images of smoking while on nausea-inducing drugs.

Although fags-in-the-eyes might be equally effective.

― robster (robster), Monday, 2 June 2003 12:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nick, I think you should do it on the proviso that you post any smoking cessation tricks, techniques, treatments, therapies, recipes, voodoo spells, devices, or chants you might learn of on this site.

― Alex K (Alex K), Monday, 2 June 2003 13:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

I would say it's a Health Promotion job, so it'll involve boning up on the evidence base (ie doing a Medline search, checking for systematic reviews on Cochrane etc). And then probably designing smoking cessation literature, running courses and events and what have you.

Who is advertising this job?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 2 June 2003 15:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

I expect you just wander around slapping people with cigarettes. The job title is hilarious.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 2 June 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Give them all Twin Lab's "Diet Fuel" and you're sure to get a promotion right quick.

― Scaredy Cat, Monday, 2 June 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

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