Smokefree Westmorland and Furness

Quitting smoking helps you breathe easier, feel better, save money, and live longer. If you live in Westmorland and Furness, there's range of free Stop Smoking support available - whether you've tried to quit before, or are thinking about it for the first time.

Free stop smoking support 

There are several ways to get help with quitting smoking, by contacting our team or organising help yourself. You can: 

Stop Smoking Support Team

If you use stop smoking aids alongside support to change your behaviour and habits, you can double your chances of quitting for good.

Our friendly community-based Stop Smoking team offers expert advice and personalised care to help you quit smoking and achieve lasting health improvements.

The team can also provide 12 weeks of free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in the form of:

  • patches
  • lozenges
  • vapes

NRT gives your body lower amounts of nicotine, but without the dangerous chemicals in cigarettes. They help you deal with cravings and withdrawal symptoms while you’re quitting smoking.

Contact the team

You can contact the service yourself - you do not need a referral from a doctor. 

Once you've contacted us, one of our Stop Smoking support team will get back to you. They'll explain what we offer and discuss the best way forward for you.

Contact our Stop Smoking support team

If you're a health professional, you use the same contact option above to refer people to our service. 

Drop-in sessions 

We also hold drop-in sessions in Barrow-in-Furness. 

Location: Barrow Library
Day: Tuesday
Time: 2pm to 3pm

We're planning further drop-in sessions in the Westmorland and Furness area. We'll publish information about this once we've confirmed the details. 

Twelve-week pharmacy support 

Some pharmacies in Westmorland and Furness are offering the following to help you stop smoking: 

  • support and advice
  • monitoring
  • twelve weeks of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT)

You can access pharmacy support yourself as your first step to quitting – or you might do so after first speaking to our Stop Smoking team.

This service is free of charge. The support will usually involve a combination of meeting in person and over the phone, but this would be decided between you and the pharmacist.

Find a list of participating pharmacies

Providers may have a booking appointment system in place. To find out more, contact your nearest participating pharmacy.

Allen Carr's Easyway programme

Allen Carr's Easyway course

This free online course helps people change the way they think about smoking.

It will help you stop smoking easily without the need for nicotine replacements or trying to rely on willpower alone. There are no scare tactics, and you can do it from the comfort of your own home.

The Easyway method is highly effective and the stop smoking success rate after 12 months is over 50%.

Book a free place on Allen Carr's Easyway course

Allen Carr’s Easyway books

You can borrow Allen Carr's 'The Easy Way to Quit Smoking'  book for free from a library near you. 

Check if the book is in stock (in holdings) at your local library, or reserve a copy.

We also have the book in eBook and eAudio format. You can access this through the your library membership and the Borrow Box app: 

If you're not a member, find out how you can join the library in the Westmorland and Furness area.

Free NHS Quit Smoking app

If you're 17 or over, you can get support to stop smoking with the official NHS app.

The NHS Quit Smoking app is designed to provide you with personalised support to help you quit smoking for good.

The app allows you to:

  • track your progress
  • see how much you're saving
  • get daily support
  • get inspired by others

Get the NHS Quit Smoking app on Google Play (for Android devices)
Get the NHS Quit Smoking app on the App Store (for Apple devices)

Quitting vaping

Most adult vapers are former smokers who've successfully moved away from the more harmful effects of cigarettes.

If you'd like to stop vaping you can find out about support to quit vaping on the NHS website.

It includes advice on gradually reducing your levels of vaping.

Our Smoke-Free ambition

We have an ambitious target for the area to become ‘smoke-free’ by 2030. 

This means we aim to support around 10,000 more residents to stop smoking, so the number of smokers is reduced to just 5% of the population. The figure is currently 11%.

Our Stop Smoking team will also focus on preventing young people from starting to smoke.

The funding for our Stop Smoking support comes from ring-fenced Government funds. It's specifically aimed at reducing health inequalities and smoking in England.