Easier access to specialist help for smoking and weight loss

Milton Keynes City Council, in partnership with Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire Councils, has launched a new, easier way for people who live or work in Milton Keynes to access free, personalised support to quit smoking and achieve a healthy weight.

Choose You launched this week and local people can now go online to sign up for free expert help – with no need to be referred by a health professional.

People are three times as likely to quit smoking if they use professional support, and the free on offer through Choose You includes:

• One-to-one or group in-person sessions, or telephone support if that’s easier.

• A structured ‘quitting’ plan with personalised advice on quitting aids such as nicotine replacement therapy.

• A place on a free therapist-led group seminar from the Allen Carr Easyway programme. 

  
  

The healthy weight programme offers adults 12 weeks of ongoing support. Families can also access one-to-one sessions for healthy weight management.

Choose You also offers online self-help tools and suggestions on where to find additional advice, plus has resources around mental health, drug and alcohol use, sexual health and more – and these will be added to in the coming months.

Learn more at www.chooseyou.co.uk