Why Give Gifts Of Health?

Outcomes Of Giving Gifts Of Health:

• When you give a gift of health you may be providing financial help at a time of health needs.


• Since ill health can accompany financial difficulties. you are helping in more than one ways.


• You will be showing support and not abandonment when lifestyle changes are necessary.


• You can be a valuable source if information to that person.
• You have a happier, healthier family or friend

Giving Gifts For Health & Wellbeing

We may not be able to give a gift of life, but we can all give gifts of health instead of another.

Fruit Gifts For Health

Thinking of giving gifts of health that are unsual and healthy?

"Vegetables and Fruit' is the most important food group for healthy eating, weight control, disease prevention, speedy recovery and to boost the immune system. Fruit baskets make excellent, unusual and healthy ones. Check these out!

Contribute to sharing the right information by giving one as a gift.

Text messaging & Email effective with Quitters

There is good news for smokers planning to quit. Researchers analysed data from 4 trials in the UK, New Zealand and Norway.

The interventions were:

1. Text messages with advice and encouragement sent regularly to smokers' mobile phone


2. Text messages to the phone in conjunction with email

They found that mobile phone intervention appeared to increase the prevelance of self reported smoking abstinence at 4 weeks after cessation.

They also found an increase in long term self reported quitting with the Internet and text messsages. Data was taken from the same trials. More studies are planned on the long term effects of mobile phones.

If you know of someone who must quit or who is planning to quit give them a gift of one of these text messaging

Text Messaging Linked to Smoking Cessation

It is good news for smokers planning to quit. According to a recent report, text messaging and email are linked to smoking cessation.

Researchers analysed data from 4 trials in the UK, New Zealand and Norway.

The interventions were:

1. Text messages with advice and encouragement sent regularly to smokers' mobile phone
2. Text messages to the phone in conjunction with email

They found that mobile phone intervention appeared to increase the prevelance of self reported smoking abstinence at 4 weeks after cessation.

They also found an increase in long term self reported quitting with the Internet and text messsages. data was taken from the same trials.

More studies are planned on the long term effects of mobile phones

It has also been proven that help from family and friends is effective in bringing about that change.
If you know of someone whose goal is to quit, give them one of these instead of a pair of shoes, for example. Give them that gift of health. Read the report here

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This is an example of text messaging available in both a US & a UK version.