Local support
The Medway Stop Smoking Service is a specialist team whose main role is to help local people to quit smoking.
The service has a range of support options across Medway, including group support and one to ones. These can be accessed in a wide range of venues including health centres, pharmacies, GP surgeries, community centres and many more. For the most up-to-date list of when and where your closest group or one-to-one is, please call the team on 0800 2346805.
All of the services we recommend are provided by trained stop smoking advisors, who offer a non judgemental and supportive service. They will provide expert advice on the most suitable treatment for you and give a wide range of craving strategies to help you be successful.
NEW STOP SMOKING GROUPS, PLACES STILL AVAILABLE - Call 0800 234 6805 to book your place.
Here are a list of all of our venues for groups and drop ins that are currently available, to find out the times of the week that these run and book your place, please call the service on 0800 2346805. Should you prefer a one to one, phoning the service number will also give you an opportunity to find out your closest pharmacy, that you can receive free support from.
Nucleus Arts Centre, Chatham
Chatham Library, Chatham
Lordswood Healthy Living Centre, Lordswood
The Resource Centre, Hospital Lane, Rochester
Rochester Healthy Living Centre, Rochester
Walter Brice Centre, Hoo
Strood Library, Strood
Sunlight Centre, Gillingham
Balmoral Healthy Living Centre, Gillingham
‘The HUB’, 48 Canterbury Street, Gillingham
Twydall Health Clinic, Twydall
Rainham Millenium Centre, Gatekeeper Chase, Rainham
Parkwood DMC, Long Catlis Road, Parkwood
Visit www.smokefreemedway.co.uk to register or call 0800 234 6805.
We have a new series of mini-podcasts available for you to listen to for FREE! All podcasts are less than 3 minutes long and provide you with tips, advice and discussions with our specialist stop smoking advisors. Have a listen and download to your Ipod now.
The Medway Stop Smoking service is...
- Free, local and aware of how hard it can be to quit
- Completely confidential, friendly, supportive and non-judgemental
- Able to provide patches, gum and other products to help you quit
- Geared to helping you prepare and manage quitting stresses
- Already successful in helping people like you to quit
- Four times more likely to be successful than quitting alone
Why try to quit?
You will feel healthier, be healthier, smell better, look better, be wealthier, gain a huge sense of achievement and others will be proud of you. You stand to gain a whole lot by quitting and lose a whole lot by not!
Contact us for more information:
- SMS Text Quit to 81025
- Telephone 0800 2346805
- Email medwaystopsmokingservice@nhs.net
Support for young people
Did you know that there is support available for young people who want to quit smoking in Medway? Visit the Smokefree New Generation website for information, competitions, music and videos aimed at young people.
Start saving yourself some money
There are so many reasons to quit, it is the single most important thing you can do to improve your health and the health of those around you!
If you smoke on average 20 cigarettes a day you could save...
- More than £40 a WEEK - why not take the kids to the cinema?
- Up to £171 a MONTH - That would help with the weekly food shop!
- More than £2000 a YEAR - Why not get away from it all with a nice holiday abroad?
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More than £10,400 in 5 YEARS - Is it about time you treated yourself to a new car?
