SMOKING CESSATION
Information and Advice
The facts
• Treating illness and disease caused by smoking is
estimated to cost the NHS £l .7 billion every year in terms of GP visits,
prescriptions, treatments and operations
•
120,000 people die each year (13 every hour) from smoking-related diseases.
•
Smoking contributes to 87% of lung cancer deaths, 21 % of cardiac deaths, 18%
of deaths from stroke, and 82% of deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease.
Top Tips
l . Prepare yourself. It is important to
be aware of the moments when a craving
may be stronger - after meals or first
thing in the morning perhaps.
2. Plan
distractions or activities that take you away from your normal routine.
3. Try to remove all paraphernalia from
the house, and throw away any left
over cigarettes.
4. Ask people not to smoke around you.
5.Tell
people that you are giving up and ask for their support during this time.
6. Plan a reward for yourself, put the money you save aside for a treat.
7. Don't have a single puff. Refusing one cigarette at a time is all you
have to do.
Support services available
There are effective interventions
to help smokers quit their habit. SinceOctober 2000 Brent and Harrow PCTs have
been managing stop-smoking services
directly.
1 Patients can arrange an appointment with their
practice nurse or GP for advice and referral to pharmacists trained in smoking
cessation.
2.
Specialist smoking cessation groups are currently running in locations
throughout Harrow.
Contact: 8896 6108
3. Quitline offers a specialist telephone counselling
service 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. seven days a week.
Contact: 0800 00 2000.
4. NHS smoking helpline. Contact:
0800 169 9 169.
www.givingupsmoking.co.uk
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