📣 We are seeking to recruit new PPI representatives for the COMPASS project!

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please contact, Cheyenne Downey (cheyennedowney@rcsi.ie) 📧

@fdoyle4.bsky.social @cheyennedowney.bsky.social @rehamalasheen.bsky.social

Happy Halloween! We hope all our followers, community members and stakeholders have a safe and fun Halloween! 🎃

Head on over to our LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/company/rcsi... ) & Instagram (lnkd.in/e5b-9bri ) accounts to see some SPOOKtacular updates from team COMPASS! 👻

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📣 New social media account alert📱

Team COMPASS are now on Instagram (@rcsicompassproject). Head on over and give us a follow!

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#Instagram #smokingcessation #financial #incentives #RCSI #Ireland

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Are you a LinkedIn user interested in smoking cessation and financial incentives for health behaviour change? Then come follow the COMPASS Project! ✨💻

Our pilot Financial Incentive Intervention to Stop Smoking (FISS) in Ireland, in partnership with the HSE Tobacco Free Ireland Programme is mentioned in this years’ HSE Health and Wellbeing Report.

Have a read of the segment below 📑👇

#HSE #financialincentives #stopsmoking #ireland

Best of luck to Reham A. Lasheen who will be presenting her poster at the HSE Patient & Public Partnership Conference today! 📣

The conference theme: “Navigating our partnership journey together” aims to highlight the importance of creating valuable & long lasting partnerships across HSE services.

Check out posters by @rehamalasheen.bsky.social & @cheyennedowney.bsky.social for the #SRNTE2025 Conference in Romania! 🇷🇴

@rehamalasheen.bsky.social & @cheyennedowney.bsky.social will be attending the SRNT•E Conference in Romania from 10-12 September to present oral & poster presentations on behalf of team COMPASS!

Watch this space to see how they get on 👀🇷🇴

Tobacco smokers in Ireland will lose almost 5 million years of life and 2.5 million years of productivity, according to new @rcsipophealth.bsky.social research.

With a healthcare cost of around €20bn, the results highlight the wide impacts of smoking.

🔗 www.rcsi.com/dublin/news-...

#RCSIdiscover

Tackling smoking remains one of the most important and complex challenges facing public health in Ireland. Prof @fdoyle4.bsky.social & Dr Paul Kavanagh describe the work they are doing to reduce the harm caused by tobacco use in Ireland.

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A massive well done to Lead Principal Investigator of the COMPASS project, Professor @fdoyle4.bsky.social, who presented at the World Conference on Tobacco Control Today in Dublin!👏

Prof. Doyle showcased findings from our co-design workshops held with community members and healthcare professionals.

On June 24th, Lead PI of the COMPASS project, Professor Frank Doyle will present a full oral presentation at the World Conference on Tobacco Control, entitled: “Mixed methods evaluation of a community co-designed financial incentive intervention for Smoking Cessation in Ireland.” 🇮🇪

#WCTC2025

A huge congratulations to Reham Lasheen from team COMPASS, who was awarded the Patient’s Choice Poster Prize at the Psychology, Health and Medicine Conference hosted by Queen’s University Belfast on the 27th May 2025 👏🎉

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🪺Team COMPASS would like to wish our followers, colleagues and community members a very happy and restful Easter! 🍫

Be sure to watch this space and keep an eye on our website as we hatch the next phases of our project! 👀🐣

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🐣Happy Easter from the VAPE-INTERVENE research team!

🌱 Stay updated: Follow our project website (vape-research.eu) and Bluesky page to learn more about our latest findings and insights into effective vaping cessation interventions!

📍New project alert!
We’re diving into research on vaping/alternate non-medicinal nicotine products and dual-use along with regular tobacco use.
Follow for updates & insights at: vape-research.eu

#Vaping #Research #Incentive #Ireland

As part of the RCSI Research Day, team COMPASS presented posters on different aspects of the FISS intervention co-design process.

Well done to all involved 👏

Cheyenne Downey was one of two winners for best poster presentation at the SPHeRE Network 11th Annual Conference on 4th March 2025. Her poster showcased the barriers and facilitators to FISS implementation as reported by our co-design workshop participants in Autumn 2024.

Well done team COMPASS!