Sheffield

Sheffield personal agreement

What you can expect from your advisor:

· Weekly One to one sessions, for the first 4 weeks then fortnightly appointments. Sessions may be virtual, telephone or face to face as appropriate.

· Help to keep you motivated and tips on how to deal with cravings and break the habit

· Advice on Nicotine Replacement Therapy and other stop smoking medications (varenicline, zyban, cytisinicline).

· Information about the positive benefits of quitting

· If NRT is requested and agreed to, you will receive a weekly e-voucher to your mobile phone for the first 4 weeks and a two-weekly e-voucher for the following 8 weeks – 12 weeks in total, vape vouchers will be issued every two weeks. Medication varies depending on type.

· This e-voucher must be presented to a participating pharmacy or Mirage Store. (prescription charges may apply)

· The advisor will issue one NRT product as the norm

· Advisors cannot issue e-vouchers to clients who continue to smoke beyond their quit date.

· E-vouchers for medications (varenicline, zyban, cytisinicline). (if eligible) are issued every 2 weeks for up to 12 weeks, to be presented and dispensed at the same pharmacy for the duration of the programme.

· If selecting cytisinicline as medication of choice, please be aware that due to the regime required around this medication NO voucher will be issued on week 1.

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What we expect from you:

· Once you have set a quit date, you commit to complete abstinence from smoking including any cigarettes, cigars, pipes, hand rolled tobacco etc.

· Attendance to the service every week for the first 4 weeks and then every 2 weeks until the end of the 12-week programme.

· Inform us if you cannot attend an appointment either by telephone, text or e-mail.

· If you are more than 10 minutes late for an appointment, we will do our best to accommodate you however this cannot be guaranteed.

· Use stop smoking medications as directed by an advisor, this will give you a better chance of becoming smoke free

· Contact us if you experience any problems and report side effects via this link https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/

· Agree to provide a contact number and e-mail address to be contacted by phone, text or e-mail: for support, follow ups or if you do not attend.

Arrange a call with one of our advisors

Call 0114 5536296 (from a landline) or 07833048200 Monday to Friday between 8.30am and 4.30pm and Saturdays between 9am until 4.30pm

 

telephone

Please let us know when will be most convenient for us to call - morning - 8.30am-12pm, afternoon 12pm-4pm or evening 4pm-8pm and we will try and accommodate you. Please note we can only call back within our opening hours and we can only try calling twice. If you don't hear from us within a week please either call us or text YSF to 80800.