WE HAVE MOVED WEBSITE. Visit our new website at: Quit Your Way Hebrides – NHS Western Isles | Serving the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
‘Quit Your Way’ (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. Friendly help and support is available, as well as information on the full range of Nicotine Replacement Therapies (NRT).
For further information on this topic, please telephone: (01851) 701623 or email: wi.hebridesquityourway@nhs.scot
‘Quit Your Way’ is involved in many activities to raise awareness of the dangers of smoking and encourage people to stop smoking.
Downloads
- Quit Your Way Hebrides Leaflet
- Second Hand Smoke Leaflet
- Smokefree Grounds Leaflet
- Smokefree Hebrides Referral Form
- Referral Pathway for Smoking Cessation
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. To view the NHSWI identified groups and leads for action across the Western Isles, please click here.
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
Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) – What is it?
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.
ARCHIVE
2020
2019
- Quit Your way Hebrides Information Stand at Western Isles Hospital
- Quit Your Way Hebrides – here to help
- Today is #Nosmokingday
2018
- New Smoking Plan for Schools
- Diabetes Centre Clinics – June
- Harris Hub Quit Your Way Client Inputs – June
- Quit Your Way Client Inputs – June
- Vaping Presentation
- Outreach Clinics within Outer Hebrides
- Information sessions to Lews Castle College students
- Smoking Cessation awareness delivered to Daliburgh School
- Partnership working at MacMillan Cancer Support Event
- Quit Your Way Client Inputs – March
- No Smoking Day 2018
- Smokefree Hebrides Client Inputs – February
- Harris Hub Smoking Cessation Clinics
- Smoking cessation offered at Diabetic Drop-in Clinic
- Smokefree Hebrides participate in Stroke Health Fair
- Smokefree Hebrides Client Inputs – January
- Coordinators Meeting and Smoking Cessation Network Meeting
2017
- Local Delivery Plan (LDP) Standard for Smoking Cessation 04/17-03/18
- Smoking Cessation at Diabetes Centre, Western Isles Hospital 04/17-03/18
- Smoking Cessation at Uists Hub 04/17-03/18
- Smoking Cessation at Barra Hub 04/17-03/18
- Smokefree Hebrides Christmas Surprise Visit
- NHSWI is Leading the Way to a Tobacco-free Generation
2016
2015
- Smokefree Grounds for NHS Western Isles
- Why Do Earthlings Do That? Musical Drama
- Health Promoting Health Service (HPHS) Workshop
- No smoking on NHS grounds in the Western Isles
- Launch of weekly smoking cessation drop-in at Western Isles Hospital Diabetes Centre
- Welcome Karen Peteranna
- Welcome Joyce Beverstock
- Health Promoting Health Service (HPHS) Workshop
- No Smoking Day 2015 – Well done Angus and Murdo!
- No Smoking Day – Comhairle display
2014
- 2014 Annual Public Health Conference – Poster Presentation
- Campaign urges smokers in the Western Isles to ‘take it right outside’
- Tobacco Programme
- Health Behaviour Change Priority Training
- No Smoking Day 2014
- No Smoking Day: ‘V for Victory’ in the Western Isles
- Smoking Statistics (Scotland – 01/04/13-31/03/14)
2013