NHS smoking cessation programme – details and benefits
Its good to start by asking your GP, GP practice nurse or pharmacist for details of your local ‘NHS smoking cessation programme’. There will be one.
You can also talk to your hospital consultant, or their deputy, called a registrar. A GP receptionist may be able to book an appointment with someone at the surgery or give you details of local services. Also any doctor that says ‘I suggest you stop smoking’, really means it.
They should explain how to do it, and why it will help you. It can have a major effect, and add many years to your life.
As well as saving money, stopping smoking will reduce your chances of getting heart attacks (IHD), heart failure, strokes, high blood pressure, COPD, peripheral vascular disease (gangrene of legs) and cancer.
So. Pick a date to quit smoking and then stick to it.
Your first days of not smoking will be the hardest.
It’s never too late to quit. Let’s do this thing.
Other resources
This is a NHS quit smoking app.
This a good US video.
It’s never too late to quit. Let’s do this thing.
