Advice on giving up smoking

Experience has shown that many smokers may decide to quit smoking with the introduction of Smokefree legislation.

If any of your staff, customers or anyone else want to become a non-smoker, the NHS can provide the following free help and support:

• Local NHS stop smoking services - you are up to four times more likely to give up smoking with the support of your local NHS stop smoking service and nicotine replacement products than using willpower alone. You can find your local service by calling the helpline, using the website or texting SMOKEFREE and your full postcode to 88088.
• The NHS smoking helpline - you can speak to a specialist adviser by calling 0800 169 0 169 (line are open daily from 7am to 11pm)
• www.gosmokefree.co.uk - an online resource for all the advice, information and support you need to stop and stay stopped.
• Together - this is a series of information packs, supportive text messages, emails and phone calls to help you give up in the comfort of your own home. Together is free and is designed to help you stop smoking based on both medical research and insights from ex-smokers. For more information, call the NHS smoking helpline and ask to speak to a Together adviser, or visit www.gosmokefree.co.uk