A team in Stockport which helps people quit smoking is celebrating saving 300 lives.

The Stockport NHS Foundation Trust CURE team, which was founded five years ago, provides specialist stop smoking support to hospital patients who are active smokers.

The 300 lives figure comes from research by Action on Smoking and Health using the Tobacco Dependence Treatment Services Impact Calculator. This analysis shows for every 1000 patients a specialist stop smoking team sees, approximately 60 lives will be saved.

With the Stockport CURE team seeing over 5000 patients since 2020, this brings us to 300 lives saved. It's also estimated that CURE team's actions last year alone have saved 113 re-admissions to the hospital.

"Tobacco is the single greatest cause of preventable death, disability, illness and social inequality both the local area and the world", said Natasha Gilraine, associate respiratory nurse specialist at CURE.

"In helping people to give up smoking we can make a real impact on improving our local population's health", she added.

"The whole team are both delighted and proud to reflect on the number of lives saved, and we look forward to continuing to do so."

Click here for more information on CURE.

Many people take the opportunity of the new year to give up smoking. For more information about stopping smoking and free support visit www.makesmokinghistory.co.uk   

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