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Get structured support to plan, start, and continue a quit attempt with pharmacy guidance.
Service summary
About this service
Smoking cessation support gives you structured help to plan a quit attempt, manage cravings, and reduce relapse risk.
The pharmacy team can discuss your smoking pattern, previous quit attempts, triggers, and treatment options where available.
The service focuses on practical, realistic support rather than judgement.
Stop smoking support
Practical help to plan and maintain a quit attempt.
Quit planning
Progress reviews
Treatment guidance
Regular support can improve the chance of a successful quit attempt.
You can discuss cravings, routines, and relapse risks with a trained pharmacy team.
Treatment options can be explained clearly where they are suitable and available.
Stopping smoking benefits heart, lung, circulation, skin, and long-term health.
Health improvement
Support for cravings, triggers, and relapse prevention.
Quit planning
The team helps shape a realistic plan around your routine.
The pharmacist or trained team member will ask focused questions about your symptoms, health history, medicines, allergies, and any relevant risk factors.
You will be told whether the service is suitable before anything is supplied or administered.
If the service is not suitable, the team will explain the safest next step, such as contacting your GP, NHS 111, urgent care, or another specialist service.
Before your consultation
Bring current medicines, quit history, and questions.
Next steps
Leave with clear advice on support, treatment, and follow-up.
The service is NHS funded where eligibility criteria are met.
This page provides service information only. Final suitability, eligibility, clinical details, and next steps are confirmed by the pharmacy team.
For severe symptoms, chest pain, breathing difficulty, stroke symptoms, severe allergic reaction, confusion, or rapidly worsening illness, use urgent care, NHS 111, or 999 as appropriate.