Smokefree provide advice and support about smoking during your pregnancy:

• can I use nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) while pregnant?
• know the risks
• how smoking affects your baby in the womb
• how smoking affects your children
• how smoking affects your newborn baby
• what are the effects of e-cigarettes during pregnancy
• what specialist support is available for pregnant smokers?

Real life success story - using the NHS Stop Smoking Service Adviser

Real life success story - using the NHS Smokefree Pregnancy Helpline

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  Top 5 tips for quitting smoking
• Save money
• Secondhand smoke
• Stop smoking without putting on weight
• Success stories
• Tried to quit before
• Frequently asked questions
• Under 18s guide to quit smoking

 

Improve your chances of quitting successfully with stop smoking medicines, therapies and aids:

Medicines

• Champix
• Inhalators
• Lozenges
• Microtab
• Nicotine gum
• Nicotine nasal spray
• Nicotine patches
• Zyban

Alternative therapies

• Acupuncture
• Hypnotherapy

Electronic cigarettes

• Electronic cigarettes

 

 

Local Stop Smoking Services

 

Developed by experts and ex-smokers and delivered by professionals, your local Stop Smoking Service provides expert advice, support and encouragement to help you stop smoking for good.

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Speak to an expert

Call the free Smokefree National Helpline to speak to a trained, expert adviser. Call now 0300 123 1044.

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Quitting support

Smokefree has lots of free support to help you stop for good. Choose from the smartphone app, email programme or text messages that will help keep you focused wherever you are.

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Chat to an adviser online

Want information now? Use the web chat facility to talk to an expert today.

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Stopping smoking can make a drastic improvement to your lifestyle and health in ways you might not expect. Once you stop smoking, some of the benefits are immediate and some are longer-term. The information below has been collected from from the Smoke Free website:

After 20 minutes

Pulse rate returns to normal.

After 8 hours

Nicotine and carbon monoxide levels in blood reduce by more than half and oxygen levels return to normal.

After 48 hours

Carbon monoxide will be eliminated from the body. Lungs start to clear out mucus and other smoking debris.

After 48 hours

There is no nicotine in the body. Ability to taste and smell is improved.

After 72 hours

Breathing becomes easier. Bronchial tubes begin to relax and energy levels increase.

After 2 - 12 weeks

Your circulation improves.

After 3 - 9 months

Coughs, wheezing and breathing problems improve as lung function increases by up to 10%.

After 1 year

Risk of heart disease is about half compared with a person who is still smoking.

After 10 years

Risk of lung cancer falls to half that of a smoker.

After 15 years

Risk of heart attack falls to the same as someone who has never smoked.

View more information about how smoking affects your body.

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• Telephone: 01952 385385
• Email: [email protected]
• Text: 07797 875385

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• Telephone: 01952 382582

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• Telephone: 0300 123 1044
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