Help to Stop Smoking
Most smokers want to quit. However, tobacco is addictive and many smokers find it difficult to stop smoking.
In this section of our site you can access information on how to stop smoking.
ASH Wales does not provide a stop smoking service.
Your best chance of quitting comes from direct support, which is offered free by Stop Smoking Wales. You can also seek help to quit smoking from your GP, local pharmacist or in some instances your dentist.
Stop Smoking Wales can be contacted on 0800 085 2219
For further advice on quitting smoking please visit
Helpful Links
Stop Smoking Wales
ASH Stop Smoking
ASH Scotland
Join a stop smoking forum
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Did You Know?
Cigarette ends are harmful to the environment, and cause health problems to children and animals that consume them.
Tobacco Industry quotes:
"It has long been common knowledge that along with the pleasures of smoking come real risks of serious diseases and that smoking can be difficult to quit. Governments throughout the world have based their tobacco control policies on this knowledge. In our view, an informed adult decision to enjoy the pleasures of smoking while balancing those pleasures against the risks is no more criticism that many other lifestyle choices we all make."
BAT, December 2000, Smoking and Health messages.
Recent studies have shown that over 80% of smokers start smoking before they were 18. A child cannot make an informed adult decision.
BAT Smoking & Health Issues
A breath of fresh air as Wales goes smoke free
2nd April 2007
The National Assembly for Wales was the first administration in the UK to back a motion to end smoking in all enclosed public places in January 2003.
Wales' First Minister Rhodri Morgan said: "This is the single most important public health measure that the Assembly has introduced.
"Second-hand smoke in public places is estimated to cause 400 premature deaths a year. This is an unacceptable toll.
"There is now strong support and acceptance from businesses and members of the public alike in Wales for a ban on smoking in enclosed public places. That support is gathering momentum as people become more aware of the damaging and deadly effects of breathing in second-hand smoke.
"Public awareness of the start of the ban is very high as a result of our biggest mass media advertising campaign to date."
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