Essex
South
Essex
Mid Essex
West Essex
Tendring and Colchester
Thurrock
South
Essex
South Essex Stop Smoking Service provides a free service to smokers
within the localities of Southend, Westcliff, Leigh, Shoebury, Basildon,
Castle Point & Rochford, Billericay, Brentwood and Wickford.
The service provides specialist support and help by trained advisors
for people who wish to stop smoking. We address the nicotine addiction,
habit and psychological elements to why people smoke.
Smokers are offered
motivational group support and attend a stop smoking course once
a week for 7 weeks. Smokers can self refer to the service or be
referred by health professionals. Help is also available from stop
smoking trained pharmacists and practice nurses. They offer one
to one structured help and support to smokers in the local community.
The service also helps
smokers in some workplaces and has dedicated stop smoking &
pregnancy co ordinators.
Call us to quit service
number is 01268 464511
E-mail: southessex.stopsmoking@nhs.net
For further information
please contact Jenny Wheeler (Co-ordinator) email:
jenny.wheeler@see-pct.nhs.uk
Mid
Essex
Mid Essex PCT Stop Smoking Service offers advice support to smokers
who live in Chelmsford, Maldon, Witham , Braintree, Halstead and
surrounding areas. We run clinics in a variety of locations with
day-time and evening appointments available in both one-to-one or
group sessions to suit your requirements. We can also advise you
on the different stop smoking therapies and drugs available to you
on prescription
You are four times more
likely to stop smoking with the support of a
trained stop smoking advisor. For more advice on this FREE NHS service
and support or to book an appointment, please contact us on: FREEPHONE
0800 085 2113
West
Essex
West Essex
Stop Smoking Service provides free support for people living in
the Harlow, Epping Forest and Uttlesford area. If you would like
to give up smoking you have several options of where you can get
support and advice:
- the PCT's stop smoking
team - we will talk you through your
options of different clinics available.
- your local GP
- selected pharmacies
across West Essex
If you are aged between
13 and 25 and want to give up we also have The One Stop Shop located
in Harlow, this is a free confidential walk in health service. An
NHS nurse can give you help and advice about giving up smoking.
For more information
please contact Ray Lockett or Cait Goodall from the local stop smoking
team on 01279 827866.
Tendring
and Colchester
Tendring and Colchester stop smoking support service.
We can offer you either one to one support with a trained stop smoking
adviser over a period of 5 to 6 weeks or more intensive support
over 7 to 8 weeks in a group setting. We aim to provide a place
and time to suit you, either in Tendring or Colchester.
Freephone number 0800 7312656
Our objective: 'To make it comfortable for people to go out socially
and breathe clean air'
Tendring Sue White: Smoking Cessation Co-ordinator/Specialist Advisor,
Colchester
Thurrock Quit Smoking Service
Covering the Thurrock area which includes Grays, South
Ockendon, Tilbury and Stanford-le-Hope
Our service offers a
7 week course of group support based on the Maudsley Model, running
one evening a week, usually lasting for about 1½ hours, at
locations around the Thurrock area. These are free and are run by
trained Smoking Cessation Advisors.
We also have a Specialist
Smoking Cessation Advisor for Pregnancy.
For more information
contact Tina Lincoln on 0800 077
8000 or
tina.lincoln@swessexpct.nhs.uk
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