Most people who smoke have tried to stop before – but it can take a number of goes to stay quit.

If you didn’t stay quit last time, don’t think of it as failure but a stepping stone. The more times you try, the better your chances. What could you do differently next time?

Don’t feel you have to go “cold turkey”. There are no medals for making quitting more stressful than it needs to be. Nicotine from a quit aid or vaping is like an anaesthetic for stopping smoking.

There are loads of reasons to quit smoking. Stopping at any age increases your chances of living a longer and healthier life.

You’ll feel the benefits from the day you quit. You will save money, feel better and reduce the risk of serious diseases like cancer,  heart disease and stroke.

Don’t feel you have to go “cold turkey” – there are no medals for making quiiting more stressful than it needs to be. Nicotine from a quit aid or vaping is like an anaesthetic for stopping smoking.

If you’ve used a quitting aid like Nicotine Replacement (NRT), it is best to use two products.

That means you might use an inhalator or vape (electronic cigarette) with patches, rather than just using one product. That way you get enough nicotine to manage cravings.

Stop smoking services also offer “quit coaching” which can also increase your chances of success.

Visit our Ways to Quit page for details of local stop smoking support and tips about quitting.

You can make quitting less stressful and easier if you use a stop smoking aid such as Nicotine Replacement Therapy, vapes or medication such as Varenicline, with support from a stop smoking service.

A stop smoking advisor can talk through all the different stop smoking aids and help you choose.  This might be a combination of products such as an inhalator or vape with patches, to ensure you get enough nicotine to manage cravings.

Stop smoking services also offer “quit coaching” which can also increase your chances of success.

Visit our Ways to Quit page for details of local stop smoking support and tips about quitting.

Everyone is feeling the cost of living with rising power costs and food bills. But quitting smoking puts money in your pocket.

If you smoke 10 cigarettes a day you could be saving around  £2000 a year and £185 a month by quitting.

Try our money saving calculator to see how much you could save.

The cost of smoking adds up.  If you smoke 10 a day, you could be spending over £2000 a year and a whopping £10,000 in five years on cigarettes.

That is money going up in smoke at the moment. What else could you spend it on?

Find out how much you could save with our money saving calculator

You might already know smoking causes COPD, 16 types of cancer, heart disease, stroke and dementia.  But it is now known that 2 out of 3 lifelong smokers will die early from a smoking related disease.

Whether you smoke cigarettes or roll ups, quitting sooner rather than later reduces those risks. Your body starts to recover the moment you stop.

The fact is that at least 2 out of 3 lifelong smokers will die early from a smoking related disease – like COPD, 16 types of cancer, heart disease and stroke which shorten healthy life.  Smoking also raises the risks of dementia.

Whether you smoke cigarettes or roll ups, quitting sooner rather than later reduces those risks.  Your body starts to recover the moment you stop.

Vapes containing nicotine have helped a lot of people stop smoking, in the North East this is over 125,000 people.

There is strong evidence that vaping is much less harmful than smoking tobacco. It’s the nicotine which keeps you smoking but the tar and other chemicals in tobacco which cause most of the ill health.

Vaping might not be totally risk free but the harmful chemicals are much lower or not there unlike the thousands of harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke.

Many smokers use Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) or vape to ease cravings while they quit smoking.

Vapes so far have helped over 150,000 people in the North East to stop smoking.

There is strong evidence that vaping is much less harmful than smoking tobacco. It’s the nicotine which keeps you smoking but the tar and other chemicals in tobacco which cause most of the ill health.

Vaping might not be totally risk free but the harmful chemicals are much lower or not there unlike the thousands of harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke.

Many smokers use Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) or vape to ease cravings while they quit smoking.