What help is available?

Your local NHS stop smoking service can help you go smoke free with individual or group support.

Derbyshire County Stop Smoking Service

Did you know you’re 4 times more likely to succeed if you use a specialist stop-smoking service!

Derbyshire County Stop Smoking Service offers information, advice, support and access to Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Champix or Zyban at the cost of a prescription, or free if you don’t pay prescription charges. You'll receive everything you need to give you the best possible chance of giving up for good.

You can access the service in the following ways:

• Join a group for a course where you’ll get help and advice from a stop-smoking advisor and lots of friendly support from other quitters in the group. Statistics show that groups have the highest success rate for people who quit smoking.
   
• Receive support on a one-to-one basis from a stop-smoking advisor.
   
• If you can't attend regular sessions, sign up for telephone support from one of the advisors.
   
• Via local community pharmacies which offer stop-smoking advice.
   
• Via participating Doctor’s Surgeries.

The service is provided on a one-to-one basis, usually with a Practice Nurse or Pharmacist/Pharmacy Assistant. Quitters will get regular appointments over the first few weeks of quitting, along with prescriptions for nicotine replacement therapy, Zyban® or Champix®

At the end of the seven week programme its expected that most people will have stopped smoking. In order to maintain success regular follow-up sessions are arranged - people often find these sessions useful as they provide an opportunity to discuss progress with others.

In addition, specialist advisers are able to provide support over the telephone – sometimes a quick chat is all that is needed to remind people of their achievements! If you live or have a GP in Derbyshire and would like to stop smoking, call us on 0800 085 22 99. If you call during office hours (9.00am-5.00pm), a member of the team will take some details from you and will give you information about your local stop smoking sessions. You can then book onto the session that suits you best.

Call the NHS Smoking helpline

NHS Smoking Helpline specialist advisers are there to help you. Just pick up the phone and you can talk to someone who can give you expert advice and encouragement.

NHS Smoking Helpline

0800 169 0 169
Lines are open everyday from 7am to 11pm.
www.gosmokefree.co.uk

For specialist pregnancy advice

0800 169 9 169
Speak to someone who understands the issues of pregnancy and smoking. If you are too busy for a chat you can arrange a call back at a more convenient time. The lines are open every day from 12 noon - 9pm. This service is only available to smokers living in England at the moment.

NHS Asian Tobacco Helpline

Please choose a helpline number from the following options to speak to an expert in your preferred language. Lines are open from 1pm - 9pm every Tuesday.

Urdu - 0800 169 0 881
Punjabi - 0800 169 0 882
Hindi - 0800 169 0 883
Gujarati - 0800 169 0 884
Bengali - 0800 169 0 885

The Together Programme

Don’t want to go it alone? With the Together Programme you don’t event need to leave home, the Together Programme delivers information packs, supportive text and email messages and phone calls at the crucial moments. It improves your chance of success and it's free!

Before you join the Together Programme you need to choose your quit date. It's best to join a few weeks before your quit date allowing time form them to write to you with help on how to prepare. Once you have decided when you want to go smokefree you can join the Together Programme by completing an online registration.

If you prefer, you can join by calling the NHS Smoking Helpline on 0800 169 0 169 and ask for 'Together Advisor'. Lines are open everyday from 7am to 11pm.

The Big Quit

The Big Quit club offers free daily motivational emails, vouchers and extra quitting rewards, that can help you quit smoking. Elsewhere on the site, there's a daily Big Quit podcast to keep you motivated with advice on coping with cravings; you can download a wallchart to help you one day at a time, plus there's advice on how to plan your quit - it's really important you prepare yourself!