If you or someone you know wants to stop smoking our expert advisors can help.
They provide:
- free support and advice for six to 12 weeks
- weekly meetings to help plan new routines, check your progress and keep you going. These can be at one of our clinics, online or by phone
- tips with managing things like cravings or stressful situations
- guidance for using stop smoking aids like nicotine patches and gum, e-cigarettes, and medications. These may be subject to availability and a prescription charge
This support from our experts will help you stop smoking more than trying yourself.
Contact us and a local advisor will arrange to meet you.
We will meet anyone from the age of 12 who lives or works in North Yorkshire or is registered with a GP in the county. If you are pregnant, you can contact us yourself or ask your midwife to refer you.
Our clinics
You can meet your advisor (by appointment) at one of our clinics. These take place on different days at the following venues:
- Bedale Leisure centre
- Bilton Children and Families Hub
- Colburn Children and Families Hub
- Jennyfield Styan Wellbeing Hub
- Knaresborough Children and Families Hub
- Leyburn Leisure Centre
- Northallerton Library
- Norton Hive
- Pickering Memorial Hall
- Richmond Swimming Pool
- Ripon Community House
- Ripon Library
- Scarborough Library
- Selby Children and Family Centre
- Selby Community Centre
- Selby Sleep Safe
- Selby Job Centre
- Selby Library
- Sherburn in Elmet Library
- Skipton Childrens Hub
- South Craven Library
- Thirsk Library
- Whitby Library
- Whitby Leisure Centre
It is never too late to quit smoking.
When you stop smoking there are almost instant improvements to your health. It reduces your risk of illness, disability or death caused by cancer, heart or lung disease. It also helps protect the people around you as they won’t be exposed to second-hand smoke.
If you are pregnant, stopping smoking is even more important. The health risks from smoking are serious. This includes premature delivery, increased risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and sudden infant death.
Quitting smoking could help you save around £2,000 a year too.
Other useful information to help stop smoking
Nicotine Replacement Therapy products are free to people who do not pay prescription charges. For those who do it will cost a prescription charge per product, which is cheaper than the cost of smoking cigarettes. Buying a three-month prescription prepayment certificate is cost-effective as it covers all your prescriptions within this period no matter how many you need. Get a prescription prepayment certificate on the GOV.UK website.
If you would like to try going smokefree yourself there are other free quit tools and tips available: