Help Me Quit is a free specialist NHS service that provides support for smokers who want help to give up smoking. Giving up smoking can be very difficult, with the support of Help Me Quit people are more likely to successfully quit. Research has shown that people are four times more likely to quit smoking with support from Help Me Quit than going it alone.
Help Me Quit provides support to people who want to quit smoking by offering free one to one support from a personal advisor and using stop smoking medications worth up to £250.
You can self-refer to the service by:
0:00 help me quit is a free uh smoking
0:01 sociation Service uh where people can
0:03 receive free uh NHS support to give up
0:06 smoking and they can receive that
0:08 support either through face to- face
0:10 meetings telephone support or through
0:13 their local
0:14 pharmacy so if you sign up for help me
0:16 quit it's a 7- we program and during
0:19 those S weeks we'll help you to devise a
0:21 plan to help you with your attempt at
0:23 giving up smoking and during that time
0:25 we can help you to set uh a quick date
0:28 uh to begin your your journey uh we give
0:30 you advice and support on how to manage
0:32 triggers Cravings throughout your time
0:35 with us we'll have a chat to you about
0:37 maybe the reasons why you've smoked in
0:39 the past that your motivations for
0:42 giving up smoking now and as part of
0:45 that we can also provide you with free
0:46 nicotine replacement therapy to help you
0:49 um to to stay quit and all of those
0:51 things together can help you to become
0:54 smoke free we can provide service in in
0:57 whichever way suits you we can tailor it
0:59 around your needs and your your time
1:02 timetable once you smoke free you'll
1:04 feel the benefits immediately uh within
1:07 48 Hours of you quitting your oxygen
1:09 levels will increase you'll be fitter
1:12 you you you won't be as short of breath
1:14 anymore after 2 to 4 weeks of giving up
1:16 smoking your Airways would have opened
1:18 up you'll taste and you'll smell uh a
1:20 lot better and you'll have more income
1:22 to spend on your family and your and
1:24 your friends using helpy quit is proven
1:27 to be four times more effective than
1:29 than quitting by yourself and we've seen
1:31 that ourselves and the evidence suggests
1:33 that so if you want to give yourself the
1:35 best chance of becoming smoke free then
1:37 get in touch
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