No Smoking Day - wikipedia No Smoking Day This article is about the United Kingdom day. For the Irish day, see National No Smoking Day. For the international day, see World No Tobacco Day. No Smoking Day Observed by United Kingdom Date Second Wednesday in March Frequency annual No Smoking Day is an annual health awareness day in the United Kingdom which is intended to help smokers who want to quit smoking. The first No Smoking Day was on Ash Wednesday in 1984, and it now takes place on the second Wednesday in March. Each year, the campaign is promoted with a theme in the form of a short phrase. In 2010, this theme was `` Break free '', encouraging smokers to break free from the chains of cigarettes and quit on No Smoking Day. The 2011 theme was `` Time to quit ? ''. Research conducted by GfK NOP following the 2009 campaign found that 1 in 10 smokers quit on No Smoking Day. The campaign was run by a charity of the same name, based in London with four full - time staff, until this was merged with the British Heart Foundation in 2011. It is funded by a coalition of governmental and voluntary sector organisations with an interest in health. No Smoking Day 's most recent President was entrepreneur, TV personality, and anti-tobacco campaigner Duncan Bannatyne OBE. Bannatyne is an ex-smoker who publicly took on British American Tobacco at its AGM in April 2008. References Jump up ^ `` No smoking day 2017 NHS inform ''. Retrieved 14 April 2017. Jump up ^ `` National No Smoking Day - National Awareness Days Calendar & Download 2017 ''. National Awareness Days Calendar & Download 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2017. Jump up ^ `` No Smoking Day ''. Days Of The Year. Retrieved 14 April 2017. See also World No Tobacco Day World AIDS Day World Cancer Day External links No Smoking Day Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=No_Smoking_Day&oldid=824712891 '' Categories : Health awareness days Smoking in the United Kingdom March observances Wednesday observances Observances in the United Kingdom Tobacco control Hidden categories : Infobox holiday with missing field Infobox holiday ( other ) Holidays and observances by scheduling ( nth weekday of the month ) Talk About Wikipedia संस्कृतम् తెలుగు Українська اردو Edit links This page was last edited on 9 February 2018, at 01 : 02 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: when was the first no smoking day celebrated
Answer: on Ash Wednesday[2] in 1984