QUIT Programme

The QUIT Programme is a new initiative which will transform the way tobacco addiction is tackled in our hospitals, offering patients who smoke access to effective treatments and support as part of their routine care.

This groundbreaking programme is being delivered by South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System in partnership with Yorkshire Cancer Research, five local authorities and local Stop Smoking Services.

It has the potential to save up to 2000 lives and 4000 hospital readmissions a year. This intervention is vital to the health of people in this locality, where nearly 200,000 people smoke.

Yorkshire Cancer Research is providing £1.8 million to fund 45 specialist tobacco treatment advisors, reaching every hospital patient in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw with the support they need to stop smoking for good. This will reduce the risk of premature death from a wide range of smoking-related cancers and save many families from the devastation that cancer brings.