Meet Mel – our maternity smoke free practitioner.
When you visit our hospital during your pregnancy you may meet Mel in person as she will be talking to mums-to-be about smoking and will be on hand to offer support and advice if you decide you’d like to quit for your health and the health of your baby.
She is able to offer a range of options including things such as nicotine replacement therapies and a 12-week E-Cigarette scheme, so if you’d like to take advantage of this you are welcome to speak to her.
If you are a pregnant smoker our midwives and maternity support workers can refer you at an antenatal appointment – it is an opt-out service at the point of referral.
You will then be contacted by the smoke free pregnancy practitioner and be offered support and booked in for a chat about what the service can offer you, including offers from Smokefree Norfolk or OneLife Suffolk depending on where you live.
Great Yarmouth and Waveney currently have one of the highest percentages of mums that are still smokers at the time their baby is born in the country and this work aims to provide support those who want to quit for their own health and that of their unborn child.
For more information please contact Mel by emailing Melanie.Macrow@jpaget.nhs.uk
You can read more here; https://www.jpaget.nhs.uk/departments-services/departments-services-a-z/maternity-services/stop-smoking-services/