- Reference Number: HEY889/2025
- Departments: Trustwide - Adult
- Last Updated: 31 March 2025
Our hospitals and grounds are smoke-free environments, so whatever the reason for your stay, this could be the ideal opportunity to stop smoking. Stopping smoking before admission or while in hospital is the best thing you can do to improve your health now and in the future.
Stopping smoking…
- Reduce your risk of infection
- Promotes faster healing wounds and bone repair
- Reduce problems relating to anaesthesia
- Shortens your stay in hospital
It is the responsibility of your doctors and nurses to discuss with you during your stay in hospital the risks your continuing to smoke poses to your health and recovery. In terms of smoking, this means you should be:
- Informed of the risks of smoking and benefits of quitting
- Referred to the specialist stop smoking team from Smokefree Hull following admission to hospital
- Provided with stop smoking medicines to help you quit
If you are unable to quit for good, you will be referred to the stop smoking service and given nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) during your stay in hospital as you will not be permitted to smoke while in hospital. This will help you remain smoke-free.
The hospital stop smoking team are here to offer convenient and practical help while you are in hospital and following your discharge home. We can offer FREE NRT, such as patches, gum, and inhalators.
For help to stop smoking whilst you are in hospital, please select one from the following 3 options detailed below;
- I would like to quit smoking and receive NRT support as an inpatient.
- I am not considering quitting at this time but would like NRT support as an Inpatient.
- I am not considering quitting at this time and do not require NRT as an Inpatient.
Patients issued with NRT will be offered a referral to the appropriate Specialist Stop Smoking services
Contact number tel: 01482 977617
https://www.changegrowlive.org/smoke-free-hull
General Advice and Consent
Most of your questions should have been answered by this leaflet, but remember that this is only a starting point for discussion with the healthcare team.
Consent to treatment
Before any doctor, nurse or therapist examines or treats you, they must seek your consent or permission. In order to make a decision, you need to have information from health professionals about the treatment or investigation which is being offered to you. You should always ask them more questions if you do not understand or if you want more information.
The information you receive should be about your condition, the alternatives available to you, and whether it carries risks as well as the benefits. What is important is that your consent is genuine or valid. That means:
- you must be able to give your consent
- you must be given enough information to enable you to make a decision
- you must be acting under your own free will and not under the strong influence of another person
Information about you
We collect and use your information to provide you with care and treatment. As part of your care, information about you will be shared between members of a healthcare team, some of whom you may not meet. Your information may also be used to help train staff, to check the quality of our care, to manage and plan the health service, and to help with research. Wherever possible we use anonymous data.
We may pass on relevant information to other health organisations that provide you with care. All information is treated as strictly confidential and is not given to anyone who does not need it. If you have any concerns please ask your doctor, or the person caring for you.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018 we are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any information we hold about you. For further information visit the following page: Confidential Information about You.
If you or your carer needs information about your health and wellbeing and about your care and treatment in a different format, such as large print, braille or audio, due to disability, impairment or sensory loss, please advise a member of staff and this can be arranged.
