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Stop smoking with support from our Living Well Smokefree team.
If you or someone you know wants to stop smoking our expert advisors can help.
They provide:
This support from our experts will help you stop smoking more than trying yourself.
Contact us and a local advisor will arrange to meet you.
We will meet anyone from the age of 12 who lives or works in North Yorkshire or is registered with a GP in the county. If you are pregnant, you can contact us yourself or ask your midwife to refer you.
You can meet your advisor (by appointment) at one of our clinics. These take place on different days at the following venues:
It is never too late to quit smoking.
When you stop smoking there are almost instant improvements to your health. It reduces your risk of illness, disability or death caused by cancer, heart or lung disease. It also helps protect the people around you as they won’t be exposed to second-hand smoke.
If you are pregnant, stopping smoking is even more important. The health risks from smoking are serious. This includes premature delivery, increased risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and sudden infant death.
Quitting smoking could help you save around £2,000 a year too.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy products are free to people who do not pay prescription charges. For those who do it will cost a prescription charge per product, which is cheaper than the cost of smoking cigarettes. Buying a three-month prescription prepayment certificate is cost-effective as it covers all your prescriptions within this period no matter how many you need. Get a prescription prepayment certificate on the GOV.UK website.
If you would like to try going smokefree yourself there are other free quit tools and tips available: