Stop smoking - Public Health Dorset
Stop smoking
Changes to Public Health services
Public Health Dorset is no longer a shared service for Dorset and BCP councils. For health and wellbeing information, please visit:
The information below explains what support you can get in Dorset and how to access it. If this is your first quit attempt, or if you have tried to quit before and want to try again, then you can access these services in a combination that suits you.
When you stop smoking you begin to see improvements to your health almost immediately.
Get support to quit smoking
LiveWell Dorset
Swap 2 Stop
NHS stop-smoking service
Find a local stop smoking service
Vaping resources
Vaping is recognised as one of the most effective ways of giving up smoking.
The evidence is clear that for smokers, switching to a regulated vape is much less harmful to health than continuing to smoke tobacco. Vaping poses a fraction of the risk compared to smoking, but they're not entirely risk-free which is why they're only recommended as a tool to help smokers quit. It is important to remember, if you do not smoke, then you should not vape, and children and young people should never vape.
If you do vape, you should plan to quit that too once you know you won't return to smoking. You can find out how to quit vaping when you're ready on the NHS website.