You are more likely to quit smoking by mixing and matching motivational support from an advisor with stop smoking aids or medicines. These can help you manage withdrawal symptoms such as cravings, headaches and trouble sleeping.

Nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) -including patches, gum, lozenges, microtabs, inhalators and nasal sprays- are available from the NHS with a prescription and can also be bought from pharmacies and other shops (such as supermarkets) without a prescription.

Information about NRTs

  • NRT gives you some of the nicotine that you would have received from cigarettes, but without all the harmful substances like tar, cyanide and carbon monoxide.
  • A full course of treatment usually lasts for 8-12 weeks, but because NRT is so much safer than smoking, it can be used for longer periods if it helps you to not smoke.
  • All licensed nicotine-containing products are effective treatments to help you stop smoking, however no single NRT product is better than any other, and there are a number of options.
  • Because NRT gives you a lower dose of nicotine than you get from cigarettes, many people use the patch to give a background dose of nicotine and one of the other products, such as the gum or the lozenges, to top this up.

For more details on the different types of NRTs available and how to use them, visit the NHS website.

NHS website - NRTs

Pharmacies accepting Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) vouchers

For pharmacy opening hours please visit: NHS Choices website. Below is a list of pharmacies who accept Nicotine Replacement Therapy vouchers. Click on the location headings to expand the list and see all the options in your area.

Alveston

Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke and Stoke Gifford

Downend

Cleevewood Pharmacy

Well Pharmacy

Filton

Day Lewis pharmacy

Kingswood

Billings Pharmacy

Longwell Green

ASDA Pharmacy

Cadbury Heath Pharmacy and Health

Oldland

Oldland Common Pharmacy

Patchway

Pilning

Pilning Community Pharmacy

Warmley

Cadbury Heath Pharmacy and Health

Yate and Chipping Sodbury

Yate Family Pharmacy

Chipping Sodbury Pharmacy