Smoking

About Smoking

The following links take you to the information pages about smoking. These pages are rated as good quality information.

NHS Website - provides information on quitting smoking, Quit smoking tools, Local stop smoking servics

Action on Smoking and Health(ASH): provides advice on quitting and also UK policies and detailed facts and statistics about smoking

Patient UK information about Quitting, Smoking - the facts;  Smoking - and Pregnancy; Smoking - Nicotine Replacement Therapy; Smoking - The Benefits of Stopping ; Smoking - Tips to Help you Stop

Mental Health Foundation: Information on Smoking and Mental Health

British Lung Foundation: Information on Smoking and your lungs

British Heart Foundation - Information about smoking and a booklet on stop smoking  and smoking, shisha  (you can download or order for free)

Local Information 

Around Hounslow & Isleworth

Stop Smoking Service (Hounslow): This free local service offers advice and support for those who wish to quit smoking.

Contact: Tel: 020 8630 3255. E-mail: stop.smoking@hrch.nhs.uk

Local NHS Stop Smoking Service: Ealing and Hounslow Stop Smoking. Area: London Boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow. Referral Method: Self. referral to helpline on 0845 111 0155

Ealing and Hounslow Stop Smoking: Group motivational support and community advisor (one-to-one) programme.Specialist smoking in pregnancy support is available.Contact: The Thelma Golding Health Centre, 92 Bath Road, Hounslow, TW3 3EL.Helpline: 0845 111 0155.

London

ASH in London: Information on the effects of smoking on health, its costs, its worldwide problems and current legislation.
102 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4HW,Tel: 020 7739 5902

Cancer Research UK
The site examines the incidence of different sorts of cancers in men and women and links the cancers to nutrition and diet, contraception and smoking as examples.
Cancer Information Service, P.O.Box 123, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX
Tel: 020 7242 0200

Coronary Prevention Group: 2 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BT Tel: 020 7927 2125 Email: cpg@lshtm.ac.uk

Department of Health - Britain
Run by the Department of Health, this number offers an information service, with an option to talk to specialist counsellors if you wish. They'll send you a free information pack on stopping smoking, available in a variety of formats and languages.
Helpline: 0800 169 0169

Luton All Women Centre: Provides help and support to stop smoking in different languages

Contact: 106 Old Bedford Road, Luton,LU2 7PD. Tel: 01582 416783

Nicotine Anonymous: Help people helping each other to stop smoking and stay stopped. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using nicotine. Meet regularly to support each other to stop using nicotine.

Contact: Po Box 1516, London, SW1H 9WT. Helpline: 020 7976 0076 (24 hours)

NHS Asian Tobacco and Paan Helpline offers confidential advice and information. Tuesday 1-9pm Freephone:

Bengali 0800 169 0 885

Hindi 0800 169 0 883

Gujarati 0800 169 0 884

Punjabi 0800 169 0 882

Urdu 0800 169 0 881

NHS Smoking Helpline: 0800 169 0 169

Parent Line: 0808 800 2222

NHS Pregnancy Smoking Helpline: 0800 169 9 169l.

Trained counsellors offer support and information on pregnancy and smoking. Also provides a callback service and details on local self-help groups.
 

Quit (advice on giving up smoking) - Freephone:0800 002200 Email: info@quit.org.uk Email Helpline (counselling service): stopsmoking@quit.org.uk Also has Language helplines:

Arabic: 0800 169 1300

Bengali 0800 002244

Gujarati 0800 002255

Hindi 0800 002266

Kurdish and Turkish 0800 002299

Punjabi 0800 002277

Urdu 0800 002288

Local Libraries - Information can be found at your local public library. Other Local information can be found at London Borough of Hounslow Health and Social Care

There are separate pages of information on Addiction in general; Alcohol addiction and drug addiction

Other information sources and Useful Websites:

Electronic Medicines Compendium contains Patient Information Leaflets on many medicines

Useful Websites:

Nicotine annonymous: Helps and supports people who wants to give up smoking.

Quit- the UK charity that help people with smoking.

GASP - One stop shop for stop smoking and smoking education resources and tobacco control consultancy. 

Oral Health Foundation- is an independent charity (not for profit) dedicated to improving oral health and wellbeing

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