New Stop Smoking Service launches in Hartlepool

Hartlepool Mail

A new Stop Smoking Service has launched in Hartlepool thanks to a collaboration between the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust and Hartlepool and Stockton Health.

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00:00I'm with Brenda Harrison, the leader of Hartlepool Council and am I right in thinking it's the launch

00:04of the Hartlepool Stop Smoking campaign? It's the Hartlepool Stop Smoking service.

00:10So what is the service, what does it offer and how can people take advantage of it?

00:14So people can take advantage of it in any way that is more accessible to them.

00:20People who are house bound will have visiting clinicians to go and help them

00:27it can be done over the phone it can be done in person and there are various places throughout

00:34the town where they'll be able to go and there will be a lot of this information on our website

00:41on the council website so that people can help to be helped to get to where they need to be

00:47in whatever way they want that service to be and so it's really down to the people who are

00:56looking for that service and looking for that help and they will be given the best way forward

01:03for them. That sounds excellent, I just hope people take advantage of it. Yes I hope so,

01:09I think that for too long we've had people who haven't been able to access the full service,

01:17we've had people who have been very supportive, we've had navigators who are helping with people

01:25wanting to stop smoking but we haven't had the robustness of what this service will be and it's

01:32to me it's just a great progress from what we've had and actually putting more

01:42on the service in order to help those people.

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