Win anti-smoking campaign
Campaign overview
Win is a new supportive push style anti-tobacco campaign targeting smokers aged 18 to 54 years in NSW. The campaign will run from 22 October to 2 December 2017.
The campaign will be screen-led, featuring primarily free-to-air television, supported by online video, out of home, digital and social advertising.
Win is an episodic style creative that encourages smokers to quit by focusing on the positives of quitting smoking – specifically that quitting will mean losing the negative aspects of smoking such as coughing, running out of breath, feeling judged, the expense, standing outside in social situations, hiding your smoking from the kids, etc.
Key message
Quit smoking and you quit all the crap that goes with it. You Quit. You Win.
Communication objectives
The communication objectives of the campaign are to:
- Reframe quitting as positive by focusing on the gains from quitting;
- Increase personal relevance by focusing on what smokers experience now;
- Build confidence to quit by offering encouragement through the tagline and end-frame;
- Reassess the importance of quitting (for those smokers who have already assessed quitting as important);
- Show that more is gained than lost by quitting.
Media channels
- Television (free-to-air, online video)
- Out of home
- Digital (display, mobile, social)
Campaign Q&A
Who is behind the Win campaign?
The Cancer Institute NSW worked in partnership with Cancer Council Victoria (Quit Vic) to jointly produce the Win campaign.
The creative agency was Three Wise Men. The Campaign is launching for the first time in both NSW and Victoria in 2017/18.
Are the people in the advertisements all actors?
Yes, the people in the ads are all actors, however expert guidance was provided by medical specialists to ensure that symptoms were represented accurately.
How was the research done? Is it credible?
The development of the Win concept was informed by qualitative research conducted with young male NSW smokers.[i] The concept tested strongly with young males with the majority agreeing the concept/key message would encourage them to quit smoking.
The concept also tested well with females 18- 34 (conducted to ensure it wouldn’t have any unintended negative consequences). Because of the positive results, and the universal resonance of the concept, expansion of the target audience was considered to include females and older demographics.
Further concept testing with males and females 25-49 years revealed the concept did in fact resonate, and the campaign was expanded to reach males and females 18 – 54 years.
Do media campaigns actually work in getting smokers to quit?
Yes. Research has shown that mass media campaigns are one of the most effective means to reduce smoking[ii], especially when they offer smokers support services and resources to help them quit.
Do adult campaigns influence young people as well?
Research demonstrates that there are few age and gender differences in how people respond to different quit smoking adverts[iii].
There is good evidence that youth respond in a similar way to adults to adult targeted antismoking campaigns[iv][v] and strong evidence that these campaigns reduce youth smoking rates[vi]
‘Social’ or infrequent smoking
There is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke. Any exposure to tobacco smoke—even an occasional cigarette or exposure to second hand smoke—is harmful. Smoking just one to four cigarettes a day almost triples your risk of dying from heart disease or lung cancer.
For more information on the health effects, visit www.iCanQuit.com.au.
Smoking and stress
While you may feel like smoking relieves stress, your body is actually under greater stress. When you smoke, nicotine makes your heart rate and blood pressure rise[vii] and nicotine withdrawal can make you feel irritable, aggressive, anxious and depressed[viii].
Smoking answers your nicotine craving, but it’s a short fix. There are other ways to deal with stress, like exercise, distraction, talking to friend/ family.
I don’t need to quit smoking as I don’t have any symptoms. I’ll quit when I’m older/later/when I experience symptoms.
If you smoke, the chances are that you are damaging your body. Early symptoms include experiencing cough, shortness of breath, and lack of fitness.
Smoking and the family
I want to quit smoking to be a strong family man:
Quitting smoking benefits you and your family’s (or future family’s) health. It makes you a stronger role model.
Children in non-smoking households are less likely to develop asthma and other respiratory conditions[ix].
Children are more likely to start smoking if their parents or siblings smoke[x] [xi] [xii] [xiii] [xiv].
Quitting smoking will improve the health of your whole family[xv].
Smoking related death and disease could mean that other family members will need to support you during sickness.
What are the health benefits of quitting?
The best thing any smoker can do for their health is to quit smoking. There are health benefits of quitting for all smokers, regardless of age, sex or length of time that they have been smoking. In particular, risk of stroke significantly reduces and becomes similar to that of a never-smoker in between five to 15 years.
Quitting smoking has benefits for your appearance, including reducing the risk of wrinkles and appearing to age quickly, as well as yellow teeth and bad breath.
Regardless of your age or length of time that you’ve been smoking, quitting is one of the best things you can do to improve your health and wellbeing in the immediate and long term future. [xvi] [xvii] [xviii] [xix].
When you quit smoking your lung function begins to improve and you may begin to feel like doing more exercise, making it easier to maintain a healthy weight.
The immediate and long term health benefits to quitting[xx] [xxi] [xxii] [xxiii] include decreased blood pressure, improved smell and taste, improved lung function, decrease in coughing and shortness of breath.
Quitting smoking can reduce your risk of developing such conditions as heart disease, stroke, many cancers including lung cancer, respiratory diseases, degenerative eye disease, and blindness.
There is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke. Any exposure to tobacco smoke—even an occasional cigarette or exposure to second hand smoke—is harmful.
If you smoke, the chances are that you are damaging your body. Early symptoms include experiencing cough, shortness of breath, and lack of fitness.
The benefits of quitting happen almost immediately:
|
Time since quitting |
How your health benefits |
|
20 minutes |
Your heart rate reduces |
|
12 hours |
The level of poisonous carbon monoxide in your blood reduces |
|
2-12 weeks |
Your risk of a heart attack begins to reduce and your lung function improves making exercise easier |
|
1-9 months |
Coughing and shortness of breath decrease |
|
1 year |
Your risk of coronary heart disease is halved |
|
5 years |
Your risk of mouth, throat and oesophageal cancer and stroke decreases |
|
10 years |
Your risk of lung cancer is halved and your risk of bladder, kidney and pancreatic cancer decreases |
|
15 years |
Your risk of coronary heart disease and overall death fall to the risk of someone who has never smoked |
References
[i] Michael Murphy Research. Cancer Institute NSW Tobacco Control Qualitative Research, 2015 (unpublished)
[ii] Wakefield MA, Durkin S, Spittal MJ, et al. Impact of tobacco control policies and mass media campaigns on monthly adult smoking prevalence. Am J Public Health 98:1443-50, 2008
[iii] Durkin S., Brennan E. and Wakefield M. Mass media campaigns to promote smoking cessation among adults: an integrative review. Tobacco Control, 2012, 21, 127-138.
[iv] National Cancer Institute. The role of the media in promoting and reducing tobacco use. Tobacco Control Monograph No 19. NIH Pub No 07-6242. US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute: Bethesda
[v] US Department of Health and Human services. Preventing tobacco use among youth and young adults: a report of the surgeon general. Report. US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health service, Office of the Surgeon General, Rockville, MD: Atlanta 2012.
[vi] ANPHA Tobacco control and mass media campaigns: evidence brief. Commonwealth of Australia: Canberra 2013
[vii] Royal College of Physicians of London. Nicotine addiction in Britain. A report of the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians. London: Royal College of Physicians of London, 2000. Available from: http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/books/nicotine/
[viii] Hughes JR. Effects of abstinence from tobacco: etiology, animal models, epidemiology, and significance: a subjective review. Nicotine and Tobacco Research 2007;9(3):329–39. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17365765
[ix] US Department of Health and Human Services. The health consequences of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke: a report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, Georgia: US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2006. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2006/index.htm
[x] Armstrong BK, de Klerk NH, Shean RE, Dunn DA, Dolin PJ. Influence of education and advertising on the uptake of smoking by children. Med J Aust 1990; 152: 117-124.
[xi] National Health and Medical Research Council. Smoking habits of Australian schoolchildren. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1979.
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[xiv] Shean RE, de Klerk NH, Armstrong BK, Walker NR. Seven-year follow-up of a smoking-prevention program for children. Aust J Public Health 1994; 18: 205-208.
[xv] US Department of Health and Human Services. The health consequences of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke: a report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, Georgia: US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2006. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2006/index.htm
[xvi] US Department of Health and Human Services. The health benefits of smoking cessation: a report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, Georgia: Centers for Disease Control, Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 1990.
[xvii] US Department of Health and Human Services. The health consequences of smoking: a report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, Georgia: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2004. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/index.htm
[xviii] US Department of Health and Human Services. How smoking causes diseases: a report of the Surgeon General:. Atlanta, Georgia: US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2010.
[xix] International Agency for Research on Cancer. Reversal of risk after quitting smoking. IARC handbooks of cancer prevention, tobacco control, Vol. 11. Lyon, France: IARC, 2007. Available from: http://apps.who.int/bookorders/anglais/detart1.jsp?sesslan=1&codlan=1&codcol=76&codcch=22
[xx] US Department of Health and Human Services. The health benefits of smoking cessation: a report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, Georgia: Centers for Disease Control, Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 1990.
[xxi] US Department of Health and Human Services. The health consequences of smoking: a report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, Georgia: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2004. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/index.htm
[xxii] US Department of Health and Human Services. How smoking causes diseases: a report of the Surgeon General:. Atlanta, Georgia: US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2010.
[xxiii] International Agency for Research on Cancer. Reversal of risk after quitting smoking. IARC handbooks of cancer prevention, tobacco control, Vol. 11. Lyon, France: IARC, 2007. Available from: http://apps.who.int/bookorders/anglais/detart1.jsp?sesslan=1&codlan=1&codcol=76&codcch=22
