5 March 2010
City helps smokers to stub it out
City workers and residents looking to give up smoking are being
offered a helping hand ahead of No Smoking Day, which takes place
next Wednesday (10 March 2010).
The City of London has joined forces with NHS City and Hackney
and Boots to offer free stop smoking medication and consultations
during March.
Workers and residents can simply join the NHS Stop Smoking
programme at any Boots store in the City before 31st March 2010, or
visit one of the weekly drop-in clinics across the Square Mile
listed below:
- Guildhall, North Wing reception, EC2P 2EJ - every Wednesday
from 11.30am to 2pm
- Bart's Hospital, West Smithfield, EC1A 7BE - every Thursday
from 1pm to 4pm
- Portsoken Health Centre, 14-16 Little Somerset Street, E1 8AH –
every Friday from 11am to 2.30pm
These clinics are free, confidential and offer quitters weekly
support, stop smoking medication and carbon monoxide monitoring. No
appointment is needed. For further information on the Boots offer
and the City drop-in clinics visit
www.smokefreecityandhackney.nhs.uk, email
smokers-clinic@qmul.ac.uk or
call 0800 169 1943.
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About the City of London Corporation
The City of London Corporation is a uniquely diverse organisation.
It supports and promotes the City as the world leader in
international finance and business services and provides local
services and policing for those working in, living in and visiting
the Square Mile. It also provides valued services to London and the
nation. These include the Barbican Centre and the Guildhall School
of Music & Drama; the Guildhall Library and Art Gallery and
London Metropolitan Archive; a range of education provision
(including three City Academies); five Thames bridges (including
Tower Bridge and the Millennium Bridge); the Central Criminal Court
at Old Bailey; over 10,000 acres of open spaces (including
Hampstead Heath and Epping Forest), and three wholesale food
markets. It is also London’s Port Health Authority and runs the
Animal Reception Centre at Heathrow. It works in partnership with
neighbouring boroughs on the regeneration of surrounding areas and
the City Bridge Trust, which it oversees, donates more than £15m to
charity annually.
Boots UK
Boots UK provide pharmacy support through 13 stores in the City and
3 in Hackney.
Press contact
Sanjay Odedra
Tel 020 7332 1835
Email
sanjay.odedra@cityoflondon.gov.uk