Stopping smoking is the single biggest step anyone can take towards dramatically improving health and life expectancy. The benefits to health of giving up smoking include being able to breathe more easily, reducing the risk of serious disease such as lung cancer and heart disease, improving circulation and increasing fertility.
It’s never too late to quit. Within 10 to15 years of giving up, an ex-smoker’s risk of developing lung cancer is only slightly greater than that of someone who has never smoked.
Reducing smoking in the home and public places also reduces health risks for non-smokers caused by breathing in other people’s smoke (passive smoking). Smoke-free environments help reduce the risk of serious disease to everyone and smoke-free homes can reduce illnesses in children such as pneumonia, bronchitis, wheezing and asthma.
New Leaf City Stop Smoking service is a free, friendly and confidential NHS service for smokers in Nottingham City who want to stop. Specially-trained advisors offer support and advice.
The service supports all pharmacotherapy including nicotine replacement therapy, Champix and Zyban, and offers more than 55 local groups, one-to-ones and drop-in sessions each week in Nottingham. There is also a telephone service for anyone who finds it difficult to get to a session.
Specialist advisors from the service also work with people with mental health or learning difficulties, and with people in hospitals, day centres and prisons.
Evidence suggests that smokers are four times more likely to stop for good if they have the right support from a local NHS Stop Smoking service. For information on giving up smoking contact: