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UK sources of information and / or support
Patient UK
Has various leaflets on smoking.
Smoking and Cancer
Information from Cancer Research UK.
QUIT
Charity dedicated to help you give up smoking. Includes a helpline number, and helpline numbers for various minority languages.
Smoking
Information from Directgov, the website of the UK government.
No Smoking Day
An annual event with a persistent message. Website has lots of information about how to give up smoking.
Smokefree
NHS site packed with information and advice on stopping smoking. Includes a helpline number.
ASH - Action on Smoking and Health
Gives a list of organisations involved in helping people quit smoking.
ASH Scotland
Campaigns for effective tobacco control policies, they provide an information service.
Can Stop Smoking
A website offering support to people who want to give up smoking.
'Stop smoking' treatments
Information from The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) which is the government agency responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work, and are acceptably safe.
Brief interventions and referral for smoking cessation
A quick reference guide to complement the NICE guideline of the same name for health professionals.
Workplace interventions to promote smoking cessation
A quick reference guide to complement the NICE guideline of the same name for health professionals.
Smoking cessation - varenicline
A patient guide to complement the NICE guideline of the same name for health professionals.
Preventing the uptake of smoking by children and young people
A patient guide to complement the NICE guideline of the same name for health professionals.
Identifying and Supporting People Most at Risk of Dying Prematurely
A patient guide to complement the NICE guideline of the same name for health professionals.
Medicine Guide for Nicotine Dependence
Information from emc Medicine Guides.
Medicine Guide for Smoking Cessation
Information from emc Medicine Guides.
Harm reduction in nicotine addiction: Helping people who can't quit
Report compiled by the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians making the case for harm reduction strategies to protect smokers.
Stop Smoking Services
Search for your local NHS Stop Smoking Service from the NHS Choices website.
Stopping Smoking - Support for Patients
Information from Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Smoking
Information from Health Challenge Wales.
GASP
An organisation offering resources for smoke-free solutions. Over 130 items including leaflets, books, activity packs, training materials, displays, posters, models, carbon monoxide monitors and promotional items.
Why Quit?
International site focussed on helping you to quit smoking.
Tobacco Control
Online professional journal, for those who want more serious background reading!
Fullstop-smoking.co.uk
A site which helps smokers quit through systematically looking at all aspects of WHY, HOW and WHEN they smoke and giving coping strategies to stop and stay stopped.
Smokefree Action Coalition
The Smokefree Action Coalition is a group of organisations committed to promoting public health. They came together initially to lobby for smokefree workplaces and are now committed to reducing the harm caused by tobacco more generally.
Smoking (quitting)
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
The Effects of Smoking
Information from BUPA.
Ways to Stop Smoking
Information from BUPA.
Why is Smoking so Addictive?
Information from BUPA.
Smoking and Pregnancy
Information from BUPA.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.
- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.
- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.