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No Smoking Day: Healthy Lifestyles Isle Of Wight Offering Help To Quit

The Isle of Wight Council and Healthy Lifestyles Isle of Wight are working together to support smokers in giving up for No Smoking Day today (March 9).

While studies show two-thirds of smokers want to stop, nearly one in five UK adults continue to smoke.

Healthy Lifestyles Isle of Wight — run by Solutions 4 Health — will be on hand with help, support and advice at two events today to help smokers choose No Smoking Day as the day they begin their quitting journey.

The team will be at:

  • The Pavilion, Victoria Recreation Ground, Ryde, from 10am to 1pm
  • Ryde Library, Ryde, between 3pm and 6pm

Specialist stop smoking advisors will be on hand to offer support and FREE Carbon Monoxide tests from their mobile clinic.

Additionally, the team can arrange for free of charge medications for those signing up to quit.

As well as its face-to-face, telephone and online offer, Healthy Lifestyles Isle of Wight offers the Quit with Bella app, free to download for Island residents, providing 24/7 AI powered support, when it is most needed.

Elizabeth West, Stop Smoking service manager at Healthy Lifestyles Isle of Wight, said:

“As smoking remains one of the leading causes of premature death on the Isle of Wight and the UK, providing free support to smokers can help to reduce the risk of people developing smoking related illnesses.

“With support, smokers are more likely to succeed in stopping for good."

Healthy Lifestyles Isle of Wight offers free support to stop smoking online, by telephone or in person.

Call 642369, text QUIT to 66777 or visit www.healthylifestylesiow.co.uk

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