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Hospital Stop Smoking Service
The service provides stop smoking support and advice to help people quit smoking.
Outpatients
The hospital service is based in the outpatients department in the red zone. Anyone can access the hospital service whether or not they are attending for an outpatient’s appointment or accompanying a friend or relative. Members of staff and anyone wishing to stop smoking or requiring information can drop in to the stop smoking office and speak to the hospital advisor.
The service provides weekly face to face support for the first 4 weeks of the quit programme, and then on a fortnightly basis, up to a period of 12 weeks. Vouchers for the supply of stop smoking medications will be issued by the advisor as appropriate and they can be taken to a local pharmacy to obtain the recommended products. Each week the advisor will take a carbon monoxide reading to see how well the person is doing in their attempts to quit smoking.
The service also offers telephone support. This can be accessed by calling Yorkshire Smokefree on 0800 612 0011 or 0330 660 1166, or by using the online chat facility on their website.
The Yorkshire Smokefree website provides an on-line quitting programme, videos of stop smoking medications, people’s experiences of giving up smoking and useful tips and suggestions.
Get in touch
Call the Hospital Stop Smoking Service on
01226 432423
Call Yorkshire Smokefree on
0800 6120011 or 0330 6601166
Call Yorkshire Smokefree Barnsley on
01226 644364 (Option 2)
Inpatients
Our Stop Smoking advisor provides support on the wards during a patient's stay. Patients or staff can request a visit from the advisor who will visit the ward and provide information as appropriate. Arrangements for nicotine replacement therapy to assist with temporary abstinence can be arranged by the advisor. On discharge from the hospital the service will contact the patient by phone and make arrangements for further support in the community, if required.
The service also offers free training for hospital staff and will provide support information tailored to the different wards and departments.
Referrals from the wards or outpatients departments can be made directly to the service by phoning 01226 432423; voicemail is available on this line if the advisor is away from the office. The Stop Smoking advisor can be contracted Monday to Friday, between 9.30am to 4.30pm.
Accessibility and Travel Information
Visit the AccessAble website for accessibility information and directions for visiting the Hospital Stop Smoking Service.