What does this mean for me?
This hospital site is completely smokefree, because there is no safe level of smoking and secondhand smoke is harmful. We understand that this can be difficult if you are dependent on tobacco and are staying here.
We offer specialist support and medication from our tobacco dependency treatment team to help you not to smoke whilst here, which will help you recover better. They are not making you quit for good, just supporting you to have the best recovery
We will ask everyone if they smoke when they arrive, and will aim to provide a stop smoking medicine (a safer type of nicotine, like a patch, nicotine gum or lozenge) within half an hour of admission.
As vaping is at least 95% less harmful than smoking, we will also be encouraging people who cannot stop using support and medication alone to try vaping as a way of stopping smoking entirely. Vaping is allowed outdoors, away from open windows and entrances.
If you are staying for longer than a day, one of our Tobacco Dependency Treatment team will come to the ward to visit you, to find out how you are doing, talk about your swap options and provide any ongoing support that you may need. If you decide to quit for good, they will arrange continued support.
