Smokefree Starts can help you find free local stop smoking support that works for you, wherever you live in South Yorkshire.
Whatever your reasons for wanting to stop smoking, our local, friendly advisors can support you in a way that works for you – in person, over the phone or via video call.
If you’re ready to start your stop smoking journey, you can find your local service information below.
Remember, you’re three times more likely to quit for good with our help.
The Doncaster Stop Smoking support team is available to help you with your quit attempt. They offer:
The Rotherham Healthwave stop smoking support team is available to help you with your quit attempt. They offer:
The Sheffield Smokefree Service is available to help you with your quit attempt. They offer:
Patients under the care of Sheffield Health and Social Care can access community QUIT support by contacting quit@shsc.nhs.uk
Many people know that smoking is bad for your physical health but fewer people know that smoking can impact your mental health.
People with mental health conditions including anxiety and depression are more likely to smoke. In some cases, people with mental health conditions smoke as a coping mechanism.
So if you struggle with your mental health and you smoke, it’s important to know that it could be making things worse. Smoking can trap you in a stress cycle, which can exacerbate irritability, anxiety and depression.
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Smokefree Starts is a collaborative partnership working across South Yorkshire to help people stop smoking and improve their physical and mental health. For now and for the future.
We bring together knowledge and best practices from across the region to give people who want to quit the best possible chance of success.
Wherever you live in South Yorkshire, we’re ready and able to help you on your journey to being smokefree.
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“Having support is really important. Stopping smoking definitely gets easier the longer you’re on the journey. Quitting smoking will help your mental health as it makes you feel calmer, happier and healthier.” – Chris
Are you ready to start your stop journey?
Be inspired by stories from people across South Yorkshire who have stopped smoking.
Success storiesPromoting smoking cessation is the most effective intervention a frontline worker can do to improve the mental and physical health of someone who smokes and those around them.
You can make a difference to those considering stopping smoking by having the supporting professionals guide to hand. This will enable you to support them in the best way possible.
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We want South Yorkshire to lead the way and become a smokefree county by 2030. To do this, we will continue to support all South Yorkshire residents who smoke and want to stop to become smokefree by giving them the help they need, in a way that works for them.
We will also continue to share the impacts smoking has on people’s lives and wellbeing, to encourage non-smokers from ever taking up the habit. This will reduce the number of people who smoke, improving the health of people across all of South Yorkshire.
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