If you would like help to stop or cut down on an unhealthy habit, please see the support and advice available below.

Weight Management

We are committed to improving the health of our population and have developed some resources that could be beneficial. You have been directed to this page as you would benefit from improving your unhealthy behaviours.

Public Health Dietitians

Cwm Taf Morgannwg Public Health Dietitians deliver a range of interactive nutrition training programmes for staff and community workers, accredited by Agored Cymru. The team provides on-going support for the development and delivery of community based initiatives post training, to support population health and wellbeing; specifically targeting the most vulnerable and deprived within our communities.

Courses are designed to equip participants with up-to-date, evidence based nutrition knowledge, skills and resources; enabling them to build confidence in cascading accurate food and health messages to the communities they work with.

Weight Loss for Life Video Help Series 

Smoking

Giving up smoking is one of the very best things you can do for your overall health.

You can self refer to Help Me Quit here

Simply fill in your details and a member of the team will call you back to support you. If required you will be offered a nicotine replacement therapy completely free of charge!

Patient – Quitting Smoking Leaflet

Alcohol

Alcohol misuse is when you drink in a way that’s harmful, or when you’re dependent on alcohol. To keep health risks from alcohol to a low level, both men and women are advised not to regularly drink more than 14 units a week.

If you are worried you are drinking too much and need support, you can self refer to GDAS for confidential help here

We have also included some further reading and advice below

NHS 111 Wales – Living and Feeling Well : Alcohol

Alcohol drinking guidelines

There is no safe limit for drinking alcohol. Drinking even low amounts of alcohol increases the risk of diseases like cancer.

To keep health risks from alcohol to a low level it is safest not to drink more than 14 units a week on a regular basis.

If you regularly drink as much as 14 units per week, it is best to spread your drinking evenly over 3 or more days. If you have one or two heavy drinking episodes a week, you increase your risks of death from long term illness and from accidents and injuries.

The risk of developing a range of health problems increases the more you drink on a regular basis.

If you wish to cut down the amount you drink, a good way to help achieve this is to have several drink-free days each week.

Why is alcohol a problem in Wales?

45% of men and 34% of women report drinking above the recommended guidelines. Alcohol is the cause of around 1,500 deaths a year, on top of a cost of more than £1 billion of harm to society.

Alcohol related deaths are higher in the most deprived areas of Wales.

Growing up in families where alcohol or substance misuse is a problem can have negative impacts which persist long into adulthood.

14% of adults have been exposed to alcohol misuse during childhood. Reducing Adverse Childhood Experiences can reduce levels of harmful drinking by 35%.