Smoking

The Trust operates a No Smoking Policy across all of its buildings and grounds, including doorways and car parks.

Vapes can be used on Trust grounds, ten metres away from buildings.

Stopping smoking is the single most effective way to improve health and recover from illness, and to prevent ill health in other people that is caused by inhaling second-hand smoke.

Please, help us to provide patients with an environment which improves their health and reduces their recovery time, so that they can get back home more quickly.

Please remember that a hospital has a duty to encourage good health.

If you think you will find it hard not to smoke while you are on the hospital site, please ask a Pharmacist for advice.

Pharmacists can offer Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) products, that you can bring with you to hospital.

Support on our hospital sites

If you want to stop smoking whilst in hospital, please ask to be referred to the Tobacco Dependency Service.

Our Here for Health team can support with smoking cessation.

Local services

If you live in Oxfordshire, please contact Stop for Life Oxon

Stop for Life Oxon: 0800 122 13790

For details of local stop smoking services outside Oxfordshire, please contact:

NHS Stop Smoking Helpline: 0800 169 0 169

or Here for Health