NHS Quit Smoking is the official app for the NHS Smokefree campaign. It is designed to be a companion app for the first 28 days of giving up smoking, and uses motivational messages, progress timelines and financial calculations to encourage quitters. On day one I downloaded the app for free onto my iPhone, inputting relevant information such as my daily cigarette consumption (for the financial calculator) and reasons for quitting – for example, family, health or financial. I have found it really easy to use, and am now 10 days smoke-free. Hopefully the app will be made available on Android soon. Most helpful are the motivational messages and badges you receive – you can even personalise this in video or audio form. The app also has useful links to sites and distraction games, and the financial calculator shows how much I have saved – £42.12 so far. Giving up smoking is certainly not easy, but this is a really practical app that I can use throughout the day and on the move. Anyone can use it and you don’t have to be tech savvy. Roll on day 28. Available for iPhone/iPad and online from NHS Choices health apps library. Free. apps.nhs.uk/app/nhs-quit-smoking Reviewed by Kelly Smith an advertising executive at RCNi
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Rip Off Britain: Food BBC 1, 9.15-10am All week at this time Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate food labels. Plus the new law that says restaurants must know which of their ingredients could cause an allergic reaction – will they be able to get it right?
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Ecstasy Wars: Stacey Dooley Investigates BBC Three, 9-10pm Stacey Dooley follows the trail of the world’s best-selling party drug, ecstasy, from the forests of Asia to inner city drug dens in America. She meets a family whose daughter took a pill she thought was ecstasy – with lethal consequences.
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The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio CHANNEL 4
NHS Quit Smoking ★★★★
PICK OF THE WEEK
UNREPORTED WORLD – VACCINATION WARS Friday April 17, Channel 4, 7.30-7.55pm Reporter Nelufar Hedayat (pictured right) travels to Karachi, Pakistan to meet the health workers risking their lives to vaccinate children against the polio virus. The Taliban has issued a decree against vaccination and more than 80 health workers have been killed in targeted attacks, but the teams, many led by women, are desperate to stop the spread of the highly contagious disease.
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Rip Off Britain: Food BBC 1, 9.15-10am All week at this time Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate food labels. Plus the new law that says restaurants must know which of their ingredients could cause an allergic reaction – will they be able to get it right?
Food Unwrapped Channel 4, 8-8.30pm Jimmy Doherty investigates the efficacy of omega 3 supplements and finds out which ones we actually need.
A Suicide in the Family BBC 1, 8.30-9pm Simon Jack’s father took his own life when he was 44. Now the same age, Simon investigates the circumstances of his father’s death and why more middle-aged men kill themselves than any other group. He meets men who have overcome suicidal thoughts, including professional sportsmen who are trying to help others do the same.
Inside Harley Street BBC 2, 9-10pm Illuminating documentary exploring the medical neighbourhood of Harley Street. The first episode features a range of patients, some very wealthy but others whose care is paid for by foreign governments or in some cases by charity. Interwoven with these moving stories
are tales of everyday life in Harley Street, including a flower delivery service and a cycle courier delivering medical samples. TUESDAY APRIL 14
One Born Every Minute Channel 4, 9-10pm A couple arrive at Liverpool Women’s Hospital for a planned caesarean and the husband is determined to film everything so he has a permanent record.
Ecstasy Wars: Stacey Dooley Investigates BBC Three, 9-10pm Stacey Dooley follows the trail of the world’s best-selling party drug, ecstasy, from the forests of Asia to inner city drug dens in America. She meets a family whose daughter took a pill she thought was ecstasy – with lethal consequences.
All in the Mind BBC Radio 4 9-9.30pm Claudia Hammond presents a new series that explores the limits and potential of the human mind. FRIDAY APRIL 17
Unreported World – Vaccination Wars Channel 4, 7.30-7.55pm See Pick of the Week Compiled by nurse Margaret Paul
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