Most smokers want to quit, escape the chain of addiction and No Smoking Day can make sure they have the best possible chance of quitting.
For further information on this year’s campaign and to download bilingual resources, please visit the No Smoking Day website
If you would like help to quit, you can contact the Smokers Helpline Wales (0800 169 0 169) for free, practical advice on giving up.
You can also contact Stop Smoking Wales on (0800 085 2219) for local specialised advice and support in your attempt to give up smoking.
The benefits of stopping smoking start almost immediately. After just 20 minutes blood pressure returns to normal and after 24 hours your lungs start to clear out the build up of tar. Within weeks your breathing will have improved. You will also have cleaner clothes and in a five year period a 20-a-day smoker will have saved more than £10,000.
Giving up
- Every year more than a million smokers attempt to give up smoking on No Smoking Day.
- More than 40,000 of them quit for good each year.
The Welsh Assembly Government supports No Smoking Day, a UK wide campaign encouraging smokers to give up for good.
The key aims of No Smoking Day
- To encourage and assist smokers who want to quit.
- To raise awareness of the campaign.
- To involve as many individuals and organisations as possible in activities relating to smoking cessation and education.
- To help achieve national and local health targets.
The core messages
- No Smoking Day is a good opportunity to quit.
- There are health and other benefits to stopping smoking.
- Smokers can get help when they want to quit.
