Coffee Break: January
01 Jan 2025
It’s the new year already, your resolutions set high,
Your motivations are clear, and you’re ready to dive.
Sheffield smoke free service is able to offer support for clients who perhaps do not have English as a first language, our service offer leaflet is available in a number of languages including Amharic, Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish, Pashto and Tigrinya, if you need translation services this can very easily be arranged upon booking an appointment.
Please note Varenicline is currently unavailable from Sheffield Smoke Free at this time!
Despite the news of a pill that will help smokers to stop smoking, Varenicline is not yet available within our Sheffield Smoke Free Service but watch this space!
To find out more about Varenicline check out the following information: What is Varenicline?
Other medication available Stop smoking medication
Sheffield Residents ! Have you received an invitation for a Lung Health Check ?
Lung health checks are available to eligible patients in areas across South Yorkshire. People aged between 55 and 74 years who smoke or used to smoke and have a registered GP will be invited by letter to have a free NHS lung health check.
NHS lung health checks are different to NHS health checks. Even if you've recently been for a health check, you should still attend your lung health check.
Why are we offering people a free lung health check?
There are often no signs or symptoms or lung cancer at an early stage. As a result, sadly around seven in 10 cancer patients are currently being diagnosed too late to be cured. Targeted Lung Health Checks help find problems early (often before you notice anything is wrong) and at a stage when treatment could be simpler and more successful - ultimately saving more lives. Most lung cancers grow slowly enough for them to be found at an early stage by a lung scan.
The Targeted Lung Health Check programme could help improve lung cancer survival rates across the area, with a recent study showing that checks such as these can potentially pick up changes earlier and reduce lung cancer deaths by around 26% in men and 40% in women.
What is a Lung Health Check?
Lung health checks are completely free.
A lung health check is a two-stage process in which we assess the health of your lungs:
You will have a phone call with a specialist nurse to evaluate your chances of developing lung cancer. Your telephone appointment will last approximately 20-30 minutes. The nurse will ask you some questions about your breathing and overall lung health. They will also ask you about your lifestyle, family, and medical history. You do not need to do a breathing test; the nurse can get all the information they need from the questions. You will have plenty of time to talk to the nurse and ask any questions you may have.
If you are identified as someone who has a higher chance of developing lung cancer, you'll be invited to have a low-dose CT scan. This is to check for early signs of lung cancer as well as other lung diseases. If you are invited to have a low-dose CT scan, this will take place in a mobile unit at various locations across your area. The CT scan lasts only a couple of minutes and takes a detailed image of your chest for us to review. If a problem is found, you'll be referred on for treatment.
