Stoptober 2025

Smoking is still a significant issue.

• Smoking remains the single biggest cause of preventable ill health and death.
• Smoking is estimated to cost society £21.3 billion per year in England.
• This includes an annual £18 billion loss to productivity through smoking-related lost earnings, unemployment, and early death.
• 230,000 households live in smoking-induced poverty.
• Smoking is estimated to cost the NHS and social care £3 billion per year, resources that could be freed up to deliver millions more appointments, scans, and operations.
• Using willpower alone remains the most common approach to quitting smoking. This is in spite of the fact it’s been proven to be the least effective.

But there is reason to be hopeful.

• If a smoker makes it to 28 days smoke-free, they are five times more likely to quit for good.
• Since 2012, Stoptober has helped millions of people attempt to quit smoking.
• With your help, this year we can encourage the remaining five million smokers in England to give quitting a go.

Find out what help is availabe by clicking here: Quit smoking – Better Health – NHS