“Prior to contacting you, I had a random text from my GP surgery encouraging me to get in touch with Stop For Life Devon if I wanted to quit smoking. They didn’t know it at the time, but it was really serendipitous for me as I had quite a bad cough and was already thinking about quitting.

Another reason I wanted to quit was because I felt smoking carried a lot of stigma; almost that you were at the bottom of the social ladder if you smoked.

Perhaps something I hadn’t thought about at the time was the impact quitting would have on my husband. I would have felt awful had he ended up with a smoking-related illness because he only really smoked because I did, and now I’ve quit, he has as well.

The support has been great, with the encouragement to think of proactive strategies to manage risky periods being particularly helpful. Thank you very much.”