The Bury NHS Stop Smoking Service
The Bury NHS Stop Smoking Service is here to help smokers who wish to give up. All the evidence shows that people who get support with their quit attempt are more likely to be successful than people who don’t, regardless of whether they use nicotine replacement or good-old fashioned will power.
Why it’s worth giving up?
Improve your health
- Reduce your risk of illness, disability or death caused by cancer, heart disease and lung diseases.
- Reduce your risk of gangrene or amputation caused by circulation problems.
- Protect the health of the people you care about by not making them breathe your secondhand smoke.
- Reduce the chances of your children suffering from asthma or glue ear.
- Improve your fertility and your chance of a healthy pregnancy and baby.
- Improve your breathing and general fitness.
- Enjoy the taste of food more.
- Explore our interactive body to remind yourself of the damage that smoking is doing to your body.
Feel attractive and confident
- Get rid of that stale tobacco smell from your hair, skin and clothes.
- Look attractive with healthy, glowing skin, no tobacco stains on your teeth and fewer wrinkles.
- Feel more confident in public places because you won't be polluting the air or making other people breathe your secondhand smoke.
- Get asked out more! Smoking is a big turn off to potential partners, so when you go SMOKEFREE, you might be surprised by the new attention you receive.
- Have a fresh, attractive home without nicotine stains on the walls and reduce your risk of starting a house fire or burning your clothes.
Quit smoking and start living
Being smokefree means so much more than simply quitting smoking. Don't think of stopping smoking cigarettes and tobacco as giving up. When you stop smoking and become smokefree you won't be 'giving up', you will be taking control and changing your life.
You have nothing to lose when you quit smoking and everything to gain
Quitting smoking will be one of the best things that you'll ever do. Imagine how proud you will feel after you have quit. When you have stopped smoking cigarettes and tobacco you will look and feel healthy, you will smell fresh and have more money.
You may have tried quitting cigarettes and tobacco before, most people attempt to stop smoking more than once before they succeed. You don't have to feel frustrated.
Imagine not having to worry about your health
Smoking can damage all areas of your body and causes serious risks such as cancer and heart disease. Imagine how good it will feel to stop constantly worrying about your health after you have quit smoking and become smokefree.
Protect your children's health
If you have children, quitting smoking and becoming smokefree will help to protect their health. Smoking can make you less fertile or increase the risk of having a miscarriage. It also causes health problems for kids such as an increased risk of cot death, asthma and meningitis.
Useful contacts
Environmental Health Team
Textile Hall, Manchester Road, Bury, BL9 0DG
Phone: 0161 253 5566
Email: environmentalhealth@bury.gov.uk
WISE (Workplace Initiative for a Safer Environment)
Acorn Business Centre, Fountain Street North, Bury, BL9 7AN
Phone: 0161 762 2650
Email: bury@groundwork.org.uk
Bury Primary Care Trust
Unit 3, 1st Floor, Elms Square Shopping Centre, Bury New Road, Whitefield, Manchester, M45 7TA
Phone: 0845 223 9001
Email: stopsmoking@burypct.nhs.uk
Bury Stop Smoking Services
Phone: 0845 223 9001
