Advice for Inpatient Smokers | Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Our hospitals and grounds are smoke-free environments, so whatever the reason for your stay, this could be the ideal opportunity to stop smoking. Stopping smoking before admission or while in hospital is the best thing you can do to improve your health now and in the future.

Stopping smoking…

Reduce your risk of infection
Promotes faster healing wounds and bone repair
Reduce problems relating to anaesthesia
Shortens your stay in hospital

It is the responsibility of your doctors and nurses to discuss with you during your stay in hospital the risks your continuing to smoke poses to your health and recovery. In terms of smoking, this means you should be:

Informed of the risks of smoking and benefits of quitting
Referred to the specialist stop smoking team from Smokefree Hull following admission to hospital
Provided with stop smoking medicines to help you quit

If you are unable to quit for good, you will be referred to the stop smoking service and given nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) during your stay in hospital as you will not be permitted to smoke while in hospital. This will help you remain smoke-free.

The hospital stop smoking team are here to offer convenient and practical help while you are in hospital and following your discharge home. We can offer FREE NRT, such as patches, gum, and inhalators.

For help to stop smoking whilst you are in hospital, please select one from the following 3 options detailed below;

I would like to quit smoking and receive NRT support as an inpatient.
I am not considering quitting at this time but would like NRT support as an Inpatient.
I am not considering quitting at this time and do not require NRT as an Inpatient.

Patients issued with NRT will be offered a referral to the appropriate Specialist Stop Smoking services

Contact number tel: 01482 977617

https://www.changegrowlive.org/smoke-free-hull