Smoking Cessation
Secondhand smoke can lead to heart disease and lung cancer and make illnesses like asthma worse. Secondhand smoke is a major source of indoor air pollution.
Stockport's Stop Smoking Service
Stopping smoking is the single best thing you can do to improve your health and your life expectancy.
Benefits to you and your family
- Less risk of cancer developing
- Immediate improvement in breathing
- Smokers’ cough decreases and phlegm in lungs reduced
- Sense of taste and smell improves
- Halt any decline in lung efficiency
- Protect your family from effects of passive smoking
How can we help?
Stockport Stop Smoking Service is a free, confidential NHS service.
We offer support and advice to local smokers who want to quit smoking.
Who can we help?
Any smoker who lives or works in Stockport and would like to give up.
What do we offer?
- A team of trained health professionals who can provide both one-to-one support and informal group sessions.
- A flexible service offering a choice of venue and appointment time (including evenings and Saturday mornings)
- Telephone support
- Access to a supply of nicotine replacement therapy or Zyban
How to contact us
Tel: 0161 426 5085
Monday – Thursday 9.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. Friday 9.30 a.m. – 3.30 p.m. (24 hour answerphone)
Stockport PCT's Smokefree Policy
Stockport Primary Care Trust operates a smoke free premises policy
It aims to improve the health and safety of patients/clients and staff. It promotes no smoking as the standard by:
- Ensuring all staff and patient/client areas are smokefree in building owned/occupied by the PCT. This means smoking is not permitted inside buildings close to entrances or in grounds
- Ensuring all has been done to minimize the passive smoking risk to staff working in patients/clients homes.
- Supporting patients/clients and staff who want to give up smoking by ensuring smoking cessation services are readily available.
The Primary Care Trust promotes tobacco control and smokefree public places to help protect the health of people in Stockport.
Key health partners and the local authority in Stockport have pledged ‘full support’ towards the drive to encourage all workplaces in the borough to become smoke-free
Links to other useful information