With Stoptober, the 28 day quit challenge just around the corner, Patrick and his daughter from Plymouth are urging other smokers to follow their success and quit for good.
Patrick Lomax, ex-military and now in his 50s, was smoking up to a packet of hand-rolled tobacco a week when he decided to quit for financial reasons. Having tried before and relapsed, this time he asked his local...
Brits could add 4,700 years to their lives and £34.5 million to their wallets.
People in Plymouth have joined nearly a quarter of a million people across England and Wales in turning their back on cigarettes this month to reap the financial, social and health benefits from taking part in the mass 28-day stop smoking challenge, Stoptober.
Stoptober – England and Wales’ mass 28-day stop smoking challenge – is back following its huge success last year, which saw 160,000 people successfully complete the challenge.
The campaign is launched by Public Health England (PHE) as new research shows the extra years of life that can be gained by giving up smoking and staying smokefree†. Someone who quits smoking for Stoptober, and...
