Stop Smoking Widget

If you're in your mid-twenties or a parent of someone around that age, you might remember the Tamagotchi craze. A little plastic toy with an LCD screen which required you to look after a creature every few hours. These days, things have moved on with gadgets - or more specifically, widgets for your computer desktop - looking after us.

Possibly one of the most genuinely useful freebies around on the internet, this gives you daily messages of encouragement, keeps track of how much money you're saving and counts how many days it's been since your last cigarette: All great motivators for staying smokefree.


Get it from nhs.uk's Tools section here and click on 'download for windows' (or Mac)

If you'd rather have some human support in giving up, there's free, local advice and support available from Cumbria Stop Smoking Service:

Telephone - 01900 324 222
Text ‘QUIT’ to 82540

or visit the Cumbria Stop Smoking Service website.