Chris Habicht

Chris has been working as a Stop Smoking Advisor for Gloucester Inner City PCN for 3 years. He is also a qualified Health & Wellbeing Coach. He was recruited at the onset of a large respiratory quality improvement project, when a service evaluation revealed that our PCN had considerably higher than average smoking & deprivation rates. 35% of our respiratory patients were smokers and 42% were Eastern European.

Chris is from Poland and is able to work in 4 languages: Polish, Slovak, Czech and English. His role has helped us remove the language barrier and has considerably improved health engagement, as well a leading to numerous quit attempts. He works enthusiastically and enjoys offering behavioural support to facilitate change. His natural abilities to encourage and motivate also benefit the wider healthcare team, where we have seen a massive increase in stop smoking referrals since he has been in his role.