Quit Your Way Hebrides (formerly known as Smokefree Hebrides) is led by Health Promotion and is the stop-smoking service for the Western Isles providing confidential advice and information on a one-to-one or group basis.
We offer free, confidential, advice, help and support to anyone in the Western Isles who would like to QUIT smoking, as well as information on the full range of Nicotine Replacement Therapies (NRT). Our friendly advisors can help you increase your chances of success in quitting smoking.
Quit Your Way Hebrides is involved in many activities to raise awareness of the dangers of smoking and encourage people to stop smoking.
Please view our additional useful information in the Pathway & leaflets section and Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) section below.
Contact Us
Telephone: (01851) 701623
E-mail: wi.hebridesquityourway@nhs.scot
Evidence shows that you are four times more likely to successfully QUIT for good with the support of the Quit Your Way Hebrides service. Quitting smoking is a challenge and we would like to help you, so why not contact us and feel the benefits. Let us help you QUIT for life.
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Healthcare Professionals
For healthcare professionals our preferred method of referral is via SCI Gateway, but we are happy however to take referrals by telephone, post or e-mail as we can add to SCI and record the referral source to reflect individual departments. For further information or guidance please do not hesitate to contact any of the ‘Quit Your Way’ teams, located across the Western Isles.
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Nicotine is the highly addictive substance in cigarettes that causes you to become addicted to smoking.
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) works by releasing nicotine steadily into your bloodstream at much lower levels than in a cigarette. Using NRT avoids smokers taking in the tar, carbon monoxide and other poisonous chemicals present in tobacco smoke.
Nicotine replacement Therapy, helps control your cravings for a cigarette. This happen when your body starts to miss the nicotine from smoking. NRT comes in different forms, including:
- skin patches.
- chewing gum.
- inhalators, which look like plastic cigarettes through which nicotine is inhaled.
- tablets and lozenges, which you put under your tongue.
- nasal spray.
- mouth spray.
- Oral Strips/Film.
Note. All tobacco products are harmful, including: chewing tobacco, snuff, bidis, water pipes (shisha), along with the better known cigarettes and pipes.
For further details about ‘Quit Your Way’, or if you have a query about NRT products and how they can help you become smokefree, please contact us at: (01851) 701623 or e-mail wi.hebridesquityourway@nhs.scot
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