Stacey: On how stop smoking services need to be suited for the individual and how it helped her.

Stacey – 35 weeks pregnant on:
On how stop smoking services need to be suited for the individual and how it helped her.

Stacey said: “I think it’s each to their own I think everybody’s different and I also think it depends on how much people are smoking. Like you get the like chain-smokers and then you just get like social smokers do you know?
No it’s not [easy to stop] but when didn’t have to pay for the prescriptions, basically so that was why I did when it wasn’t gonna cost me any money.”


Midwife Hull says: "Smoke free families aim to arrange with you where the most convenient place to meet, this is is usually a clinic or children’s centre. Bringing along your mum, partner or friend is a good idea. This will help to give you lots of support.
It’s free and times are to suit you, so if you work it can be in the evening."

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Stacey: How the service has helped her to stop smoking.

Stacey – 35 weeks pregnant on:
How the service has helped her to stop smoking.

Stacey said: “I’m thirty-five weeks this week, I was smoking in the beginning of the pregnancy, so I went to I go to smoking cessation at the Orchard Park Health Centre. I get vouchers every month for stopping smoking and they help me out with giving me nicotine patches and the inhalator.
You have to blow into like a machine [carbon monoxide test] and every time you go you know just to prove that you’re clear. It works for me”


Midwife Hull said: "The service has obviously helped you quit but well done you as it can be tough!
The first appointment can be the hardest wondering what to expect but once you realise that the team is there to help you, not to judge it will get easier. It will always be at a venue that suits you so limiting your travel and time."

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Emily: Whether a stop smoking service really can make a difference

Emily – 21 weeks pregnant on:
Whether a stop smoking service really can make a difference

Emily said: “I don’t know how they how they actually plan on trying to help anyone quit because they it’s down to that person. It’s not down to anyone else. No one else can turn around and say right your going to quit smoking and give up like that.”


Midwife Hull said: "The smoke free team will never pressure anyone to stop without taking into consideration each individual circumstance. An action plan will be made jointly between you and your allocated member of the team and it will be on your terms.
We know you will be 4 times more likely to stop if you have that support."

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Kelly: Stopping Smoking When Pregnant and Banning Smoking in Her Home

Kelly – 21 weeks pregnant on:
Stopping smoking when pregnant and banning smoking in her home.

Kelly: “Like, with my first son I stopped smoking. I was a real heavy smoker, like it was 100 a week. Yeah, and I stopped cold turkey when I got pregnant… and then I started again but not as bad; just one every now and again cause I don’t like to smoke... I don’t think you should smoke around your kids, and I don’t have people smoke in my house. So I just go outside, so it kind of stopped me smoking, and then obviously now I’m pregnant again I don’t smoke at all.”


Midwife Hull replied: "Well done Kelly you sound very determined to stop and you did it the hard way – alone!
I would recommend quitting with help from the smoke free team. We know you are 4 times more likely to stop with help than on your own. They can give face to face advice not only to you but to family members as well at a venue and time to suit you. They can also give advice on nicotine replacement treatments. Why don’t you give them a ring? 0800 915 59 59 or text QUIT to 81800."

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