Stopping Smoking - NHS help?

[Lysander]

Amazing how people are prepared to pay £10 a day for cigarettes but want to get the patches off the NHS

Not really. If people can get something for free then they will. Hence the decline of physical media in the music industry.

 

[pitchfork]

Amazing how people are prepared to pay £10 a day for cigarettes but want to get the patches off the NHS

Why shouldn't they have their pouches at prescription price? They've paid enough tax.

 

[Efour]

5 months is nothing.

In b4 vaping retards.

Just stop smoking. I did after 10 years. You don't need iron will. Just stop buying them, then poncing them.

I still get cravings and urges but cope somehow...

 

[android guy]

Since I split with my GF (who I thought I was going to marry) way way back in August, I started smoking due to the uncontrollable anxiety and stress of it all.

Now I want to give it up, and I am wondering if the NHS provides gum and nicotine patches, or do you have to purchase these?

thanks.

Why should the NHS give you stuff to help you stop? They didn't help you start.

Pay for your own. No wonder the NHS is going down hill.

 

[Pestilence]

Why should the NHS give you stuff to help you stop? They didn't help you start.

Pay for your own. No wonder the NHS is going down hill.

Because it's of net benefit for the NHS to give a small outgoing on assisting a quitter in order to avoid footing the bill for costly, and lengthy, treatments due to SRIs in the future.

 

[Lysander]

Why should the NHS give you stuff to help you stop? They didn't help you start.

Pay for your own. No wonder the NHS is going down hill.

It's a specific service they provide.

http://www.nhs.uk/smokefree

Because it's of net benefit for the NHS to give a small outgoing on assisting a quitter in order to avoid footing the bill for costly, and lengthy, treatments due to SRIs in the future.

Yup, think of it as damage limitation.

 

[chief barker]

If I can give up smoking after 20 years then ANYBODY can give up.

And I was addicted to it badly!

If you want to give up then do it.....half quitters use therapy/alternatives real quitters go cold turkey.

 

[android guy]

Because it's of net benefit for the NHS to give a small outgoing on assisting a quitter in order to avoid footing the bill for costly, and lengthy, treatments due to SRIs in the future.

Poppycock - You started...You quite..Don't expect the NHS to bail you out

 

[pitchfork]

Why should the NHS give you stuff to help you stop? They didn't help you start.

Pay for your own. No wonder the NHS is going down hill.

Sorry how much do smokers pay in tax every year? I'm sure the NHS can stump up a bit of cash to help them quit.

The NHS is going downhill because the conservatives want to trash it, tell us it isn't working and privatize it for a quick buck.

 

[Lysander]

Poppycock - You started...You quite..Don't expect the NHS to bail you out

Didn't you see my post? It's a specific service they provide. Look:

http://www.nhs.uk/smokefree

You can get free stuff from here:

https://quitnow.smokefree.nhs.uk/

And Pestilence was right on the money. You may think people paid to get themselves in, so they can pay to get out, but it saves the NHS further down the line this way.

 

[PapaLazaru]

Bet you feel a bit silly now.

Maybe a little bit, but nowhere as silly as you must feel after starting smoking again after what happened last time.

 

[Trigger_Happy]

Maybe a little bit, but nowhere as silly as you must feel after starting smoking again after what happened last time.

I dont disagree.

But the stress of losing somone like that I'm lucky I didnt end up taking my own life.. but thats passed now, I hope.