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However, even within these kinds of enclosed establishments there are still strict rules surrounding where you
are permitted to smoke. For example, in a prison, you would be permitted to smoke in your own cell or if you
shared a cell with another smoker but you would not be allowed to smoke freely in any communal area which
may be shared with non-smokers nor would you even be able to smoke in your cell if you shared it with a nonsmoker.
To force a breakthrough in the smoking culture in psychiatry it should be prohibited for mental health staff to
smoke in the work place. There I said it! (and yes I agree it should be like that everywhere in health care but in
this blog I will focus on psychiatry). Its a challenge for patients to quit smoking in psychiatry where a lot of
people smoke. They get discouraged. Mental health workers may often tell the patient that its too hard to quit
with mental illness, that it stresses them out too much. And of course its quite an effort for them but I have seen
enough to prove that it is not impossible. Sometimes I wonder if staff who smoke feel threatened by the brave
attempts of patients who want to quit when they cant manage to quit themselves. Healthcare professionals are
an important component of every smokefree air campaign. Doctors, dentists, nurses, dental hygienists, and
healthcare students not only have a shared interest in promoting and protecting public health, but many are also
are well-known and well-respected within their communities.
If I'm in hospital all I want from my nurses and doctors is that they do their jobs well, which the overriding
majority do. Patients should focus on their job, which is primarily, getting better, not moralising on the private
lives of the people who are there to treat them.