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The NHS Stop Smoking Services have been in place for ten years this September and in those ten years it is estimated that approximately 70,000 lives have been saved as a direct result of it.

Anyone who has ever been addicted to cigarettes knows how hard it is to stop, and the UK led the way in helping smokers by being one of the first countries to offer free stop smoking support.

Over the years the NHS has adapted its approach to help all sorts of different people to stop their smoking habits. They now offer lots of different approaches, recognising that different people respond better to certain techniques than others.

Overall, since the NHS Support has been in place the percentage of smokers in the UK has dropped from 28% to just below 21%. This is a great achievement and is also due to the result of government policies of not allowing smoking in public places. However nothing can be taken away from the support that the NHS has offered those thousands of people who have now successfully stopped smoking.

Let’s hope that eventually with NHS support the number of people smoking can be reduced to an even smaller percentage of the population.