If you live in the Westmorland and Furness area, we offer several forms of support to help you stop smoking for good.
Quitting smoking has many benefits, such as:
- improved quality of life
- financial savings
- immediate and long-term health benefits
Free access to the Easyway online programme
Allen Carr's Easyway is a series of online seminars, led by trained professionals. It will enable you to quit easily, painlessly and without the need for willpower. There's also no cost to you.
The Easyway method is highly effective and the stop smoking success rate after 12 months is over 50%.
Following a successful trial last year, we have additional places for local residents to follow the programme.
Access the Easyway programme for free
The Easyway To Quit Smoking book is also available free from your local library and through the Borrowbox app in eBook and eAudio versions.
BorrowBox eBook - Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking Without Willpower - Includes Quit Vaping
BorrowBox eAudio - Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking Without Willpower - Includes Quit Vaping
Request to borrow - Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking Without Willpower
12-week pharmacy support
Participating pharmacies provide support, monitoring, and advice along with Nicotine Replacement Therapy for 12 weeks to help people who live in the Westmorland and Furness Council area stop smoking. Usually this will involve a combination of meeting in person and over the phone, but this would be decided between you and the pharmacist.
Please be aware that providers may have a booking appointment system in place. To find out more, contact your nearest participating pharmacy:
Alston
Alston Pharmacy, Front street, Alston, Cumbria, CA9 3QP. Telephone: 01434 381 259
Ambleside
Thomas Bell Pharmacy, Lake Road, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 0AD. Telephone: 015394 33345
Appleby-in-Westmorland
Greentree Eden Pharmacy, 11 Boroughgate, Appleby, Cumbria, CA16 6XF. Telephone: 017683 51410
Barrow
Asda Pharmacy Barrow, Walney Road, Barrow in Furness, LA14 5UG. Telephone: 01229 842510
Cohens Pharmacy, Friars Lane branch only, Barrow in Furness, LA13 9NN. Telephone: 01229 821050
Flookburgh
Flookburgh Pharmacy, 1 Market Street, Flookburgh, Cumbria, LA11 7JU. Telephone: 015395 58298
Hawkshead
Collins and Butterworth, The Pharmacy, Main Street, Hawkshead, Cumbria, LA22 0NS. Telephone: 015394 36201
Kirkby Stephen
Green Tree Pharmacy 6-8 Market Street, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, CA17 4QS. Telephone: 017683 71392
Penrith
- Morrisons Pharmacy, Brunswick Road, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 7JU. Telephone: 01768 862 055
- Well Pharmacy, Bridge Lane, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 8HW. Telephone: 01768 862 695
Staveley
Staveley Healthcare LTD, Staveley Pharmacy, 6 Main Street, Staveley, Cumbria, LA8 9LU, Telephone: 01539 821 222
Our free smoking cessation service
We offer one-to-one coaching and group support to help people stop smoking. We work in the community and the service is free.
If you use stop smoking aids alongside support to change your behaviour and habits, you can double your chances of quitting for good.
You can sign up to this service yourself, you do not need a referral from a doctor.
Health professionals can also use this online form to refer people to our service.
Sign up for our smoking cessation service.
Our 'smokefree 2030' ambition
We have an ambitious target for the Westmorland and Furness area to become smoke-free by 2030.
Approximately 11% of the population in this area smoke. We aim to reduce this to 5% by 2030.
This means around 10,000 residents need to quit smoking. We will also focus on preventing young people from starting to smoke.
The funding for our stop-smoking support comes from ring-fenced government funds specifically aimed at reducing health inequalities and smoking in England. These services are not funded by council tax.