Support for you to quit smoking during pregnancy

Many women find it difficult to stop smoking, but it’s one of the most important things you can do to improve your baby’s health, growth and development. It’s also the single most important thing you can do to improve your own long-term health.

It’s never too late to stop smoking. When you stop smoking, you and your baby will feel the benefits immediately.

Find out more about how to get help from us, and the health benefits to you and your baby.

Our stop smoking service

We help all women who smoke by giving them a referral to our in-house stop smoking service.

This means you can see our Tobacco Dependency Advisor (TDA) in our maternity unit. The TDA is specifically trained and experienced in supporting pregnant women to stop smoking.

How to get an appointment

They’ll contact you shortly after your first antenatal appointment to offer personalised stop-smoking support. The TDA understands how difficult quitting smoking can be and are trained in supporting positive behaviour change. They’ll TDA discuss the barriers you may have to quitting smoking as well as techniques to overcome these.

Appointments are over the telephone or face-to-face, depending on your individual needs and preferences. The TDA can also provide free stop smoking aids (such as Nicotine Replacement Therapy) to those who engage with the service as these make quitting smoking more likely.

You can self-refer into the service by emailing bht.maternitystop-smoking@nhs.net or ask your midwife to re-refer you to the TDA.

If you opt out of this service, you can re-engage with our TDA  at any time in your pregnancy.