Smoking and alcohol
Making the choice to stop smoking and reduce how much alcohol you drink is a step you can take to support your health
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Smoking Support
Smoking makes it harder for your body to heal after surgery or cancer treatment. Stopping smoking has many important benefits if you are on a cancer journey. Many of the benefits happen straight away.
It is not always easy to stop smoking. There are lots of tools and resources to make stopping easier.
If you would like support to stop smoking you can:
- call Healthy Lifestyles Gloucestershire on 0800 755 5533
- visit www.hlsglos.orgstop-smoking.
- speak to your GP
- visit Quit smoking - Better Health - NHS
Alcohol Support
It is safest not to drink alcohol at all. Stopping or drinking less alcohol can make a big difference to your health.
If you do drink alcohol, try to keep to the guidelines for adults below.
- Do not drink more than 14 units of alcohol per week
- Spread units of alcohol evenly across the week.
- Have a number of days where you don't drink any alcohol.
If you would like support to drink less alcohol you can:
- speak with your GP
- contact Healthy Lifestyles Gloucestershire on 0800 755 5533
- visit www.hlsglos.org
- visit Drink less alcohol - Better Health - NHS