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Nhs Smoking Cessation Service
want to give up smoking?
there are always health and financial benefits to quitting smoking, but quitting now will help you:
1. reduce the likelihood of life-threatening complications from covid-19. smoking damages your lungs, and your heart, which can put you at greater risk of life-threatening complications if you get covid-19.
2. reduce your risk of other diseases caused by smoking such as cancer, diabetes, heart attack, emphysema, bronchitis and stroke. quitting will improve your health, and help protect the nhs.
3. stopping smoking allows your body to repair itself – after 8 hours oxygen levels return to normal, after 2 days, your lungs start clearing out smoking debris, after 3 days breathing becomes easier and within weeks, your heart attack risk begins to drop. watch this film which explains all the benefits of quitting.
4. protect the health of others. exposure to secondhand smoke also increases the risk of complications from respiratory infections, especially in children. it also increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes and cancer. during this time, when we are spending most of our time at home, it’s important to protect others from tobacco smoke. see also guidance for smokers and vapers from public health england.
if you’re trying to quit you don’t have to go it alone
come and talk to one of our qualified smoking cessation advisors who will help you “kick the habit”, with motivational, nicotine replacement and champix therapy. (*chargeable to nhs charge-paying patients)
nb: during covid restrictions consultations will take place over the telephone.
book an appointment today.