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

The XI Walk ‘Life without tobacco is better lived’ will start on Friday 31 from Terraza Street and will go through the pedestrian streets of the center to Real Street.

In El Paseíllo there will be an information table and workshops on physical activity and music therapy.

The Estepona Town Hall informs that next Friday 31 is celebrated World No Tobacco Day. On this occasion will be held the Healthy Walk ‘Life without tobacco is better lived’ through the old town of Estepona, organized by the Consistory, through the Regional Center for Drug Addiction and Addictions belonging to the Delegation of Social Services, Elderly and Social Integration, along with the Health Centers Estepona West and La Lobilla, and the collaboration of the Red Cross and the Volunteer Platform of Estepona.

The aim of this activity 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.

Registration for this activity is free and those interested in participating should come with white T-shirt and cap, at 9.30 am, at the meeting point in Plaza Antonia Guerrero. The route includes: Terraza Street, Manzanares Street, Santa Ana Street, Avda. de España, Paseo Marítimo, Mirador del Carmen, Paseo Marítimo, ending at C/ Real (El Paseíllo area), where Physical Activity and Music Therapy workshops will be held. At the same time there will be an information stand on smoking cessation, where all citizens who wish to do so can learn about the different methods to quit smoking and health promotion programs that are developed in the town.

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

This initiative arises within the framework of collaboration between the City Council and the Health Centers of Estepona West and La Lobilla in order to “provide a joint and comprehensive response to the growing demand of the population in the treatment of smoking”. To this end, the Costa del Sol Health District and the City Council promoted the Local Network of Attention to Smoking, formed by the Health Centers of the town and the Regional Center for Drug Addictions of Estepona, whose actions include the development of awareness and prevention of smoking among the population. The units of this network have a multidisciplinary team made up of psychologists, nurses and doctors, who are part of the network of trainers of the Comprehensive Plan on Smoking in Andalusia.