Stop Smoking Service

Stopping smoking is the single greatest thing you can do to improve your health. With the help of the NHS Stop Smoking Service you are four times more likely to quit than using willpower alone.

One-to-One Support

One-to-one support is provided through a network of stop smoking advisers in pharmacies, GP practices and other locations across South of Tyne and Wear. Advisers provide a 12 week stop smoking programme which includes:

• Preparation for quitting 
• Setting a quit date
• Discussion and support to access stop smoking medications
• Weekly carbon monoxide monitoring
• Coping with recovery symptoms

What’s more, if you use the NHS Stop Smoking Service and currently receive free prescriptions,  your Nicotine Replacement Therapy (eg gum, patches, inhalers) will also be free of charge.

Local Success Stories

• Free NRT frees Ron from 44-year smoking habit
• Family Quit after a Century of Smoking
• Free NRT frees Emma from 40-a-day smoking habit  

Find your local Stop Smoking Service:

• Gateshead Stop Smoking Services
• South Tyneside Stop Smoking Services
• Sunderland Stop Smoking Services  

Group Support 

Trained advisers will provide help and guidance on quitting and you can share hints and tips and get support from other local people.

• Local Group support in Gateshead
• Local Group support in South Tyneside
• Local Group support in Sunderland  

Contact the NHS Stop Smoking Service for Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland on the following number: 

 Telephone: 0191 283 1145 (Monday - Friday, 9.30am to 5pm)

National Smokefree Helpline
Telephone 0800 169 0 169 (7 days a week, 7am to 11pm)

Go Smokefree
http://smokefree.nhs.uk/