No Smoking Day is an annual health awareness day in the United Kingdom that is intended to help smokers who want to quit smoking. This day takes place every second Wednesday of March of the year.
Smoking is the single greatest preventable cause of death in the world today. There are more than one billion smokers worldwide- and it kills up to half the people who smoke.
No Smoking 2021: Date, History, and Theme of 2021
In 2021, this day will fall on 10th March, Wednesday.
The first No Smoking Day was on Ash Wednesday in 1984. Each year, the campaign is promoted with a theme in the form of a short phrase. In 2010, this theme was “Break free”, encouraging smokers to break free from the chains of cigarettes and quit on No Smoking Day. The 2011 theme was “Time to quit?”. Research conducted by GfK NOP following the 2009 campaign found that 1 in 10 smokers quit on No Smoking Day.
The No Smoking Day 2021 theme is “quitting smoking doesn’t have to be stressful.”
No Smoking 2021: Significance
Smoking cigarettes makes the walls of your arteries sticky from the chemicals, so fatty material can stick to them. If the arteries that carry blood to your heart get damaged and clogged, it can lead to a heart attack. If this happens in the arteries that carry blood to your brain it can lead to a stroke. To spread awareness about these harmful effects, this day is observed in the UK.
