City Council commemorates World No Tobacco Day with a healthy walk through the city

The XIII Walk ‘Unmasking the appeal: Counteracting nicotine and tobacco addiction’ will take place on Friday, May 29. In addition, in El Paseillo there will be an information table and physical activity and music therapy workshops will be held.

The councilor and the director of the delegation of Social Services, Maria Aguilar and Lorenzo Guerra, and representatives of the health centers of the town Estepona West and La Lobilla Remedios Martin and Sara Rojas, today presented the program of activities on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day.

The municipal responsible has reported that the events will take place on Friday, May 29, and will mainly consist of a Healthy Walk with the slogan ‘Unmasking the appeal: Counteract addiction to nicotine and tobacco’, organized by the Consistory, through the Outpatient Addiction Treatment Center belonging to the delegation of Social Services, Elderly and Social Integration, along with Primary Care District Costa del Sol and Health Centers in the town, and with the collaboration of Red Cross and Volunteer Platform, Spanish Association Against Cancer in Estepona and the Center for Active Participation of Elderly.

Registration for this activity is free and those interested in participating should come with white T-shirt and cap, at 09.00 hours at the Plaza Antonia Guerrero, where they will start a tour that will end at Terraza Street (El Paseillo area). At this point will be installed a stand on smoking cessation, to inform citizens who wish to inform them of the different methods to quit smoking and health promotion programs that are developed in our city. There will also be workshops on Physical Activity and Music Therapy.

As stated by the councilor, the aim of this initiative is to raise awareness among all citizens, regardless of age, of the serious damage caused by smoking to health and offer advice and recommendations to adopt healthy lifestyle habits to achieve greater personal and social well-being.

Lorenzo Guerra said that one more year we propose this challenge, within the ‘Program for a million steps’, to reach this amount by the sum of the steps of all the people participating in this healthy route, which aims in this way to promote the practice of daily physical activity and also strengthen the associative life of the municipality.

For their part, representatives of the health centers Estepona West and La Lobilla, Maria Martin and Sara Rojas, have announced that within this framework of cooperation are also scheduled other actions during this last week, such as the installation of information tables in health centers to inform about the consequences of smoking, the delivery of informative material and information leaflets to quit smoking; awareness campaigns through local media, all aimed at the promotion and development of a healthy lifestyle.