We offer 2 different types of support, including:
Face to face or telephone support
Our friendly team of trained advisers offer:
- weekly one-to-one support to strengthen your motivation and help you stay on track (phone or face-to-face)
- access to nicotine replacement therapy including skin patches, gum, inhalators, lozenges and mouth spray
- access to smoking cessation medication
- a free vape starter kit including 10 liquids, worth £45.99 (only available to residents aged 18 and over).
To claim your free vape starter kit as part of your quit attempt, please get in touch with the Medway Stop Smoking Service.
For more information on how vaping can support a quit attempt, visit the NHS website.
Face-to-face appointments are available at our 3 stop smoking centres across Medway:
- Stop Smoking Advice Centre, Chatham
- Balmoral Gardens Healthy Living Centre, Gillingham
- Strood Community Hall, Strood.
Get in touch
To meet with one of our friendly trained advisers please sign up using the options below:
- text 'QUIT' to 81025 from your mobile phone
- phone: 01634 334 800 or 0800 234 6805, during office hours
- email: medwaystopsmokingservice@nhs.net.
Read our privacy policy for details of how any personal data you give us is used and kept safe.
Online support
If you’d like to access your stop smoking support online, you can sign up to our text to quit messaging service.
This is a text only service where you can get support, tips and vouchers for prescriptions to your phone.
We are not able to offer vapes or smoking cessation medication though our text-to-quit service.
Terms and conditions
A free vape starter kit is only available to adults aged 18 and over who have signed up to the 8 week Medway Stop Smoking Programme.
Vapes are redeemable using an online voucher, no vapes are kept at the Stop Smoking Advice Centre.