Prescription Care Services offers a wide range of NHS services to help support you in making healthy changes to your lifestyle. There have a range of resources and advice to help you make these changes. We can provide advice and tips on how to eat healthily, how to get enough exercise and stop smoking.
It's never too late to lead a healthier life
Stop Smoking
Cigarettes contain over 4,000 toxic chemicals and around 69 of these cause cancer.
Quitting dramatically increases your chances of living a longer life. It takes just 20 minutes for your body to start healing once you quit smoking, repairing the damage done by all those years of smoking.
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You will reduce your chances of getting lung cancer and be able to breathe more easily.
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You will reduce that clogged feeling in your lungs and lose that nasty cough in the morning.
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You will reduce your chances of having a heart attack.
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You will reduce your risk of developing illness, disability or death caused by cancer, heart or lung disease.
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You will reduce your risk of gangrene or amputation caused by circulatory problems.
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You will improve your fertility levels and your chance of a healthy pregnancy and baby.
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You will improve your breathing and general fitness.
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Alcohol Awareness
The Effects of Alcohol - Are You Putting Your Health At Risk?
There’s no guaranteed safe level of drinking! Regularly drinking above recommended daily limits risks damaging your health.
The NHS recommends:
• Men should not regularly drink more than 3-4 units a day.
• Women should not regularly drink more than 2-3 units a day.
Most people who have health problems from drinking aren’t alcoholics – they’re just people who’ve regularly been drinking more than the recommended levels for some years.The effects of alcohol are different for each person, and for men and women.The amount you drink, how often you drink and how long you’ve been drinking all make a difference. And it’s certainly not only people who get drunk or binge drink who are at risk.
Most people who are drinking too much don’t see any symptoms at first, but alcohol’s hidden effects emerge later in life – and by then they can be a serious problem.
Liver problems, reduced fertility, high blood pressure, increased risk of various cancers and heart attack are some of the numerous harmful effects of regularly drinking above recommended levels.
To find out more and check your drinking levels speak to our pharmacy team today.
Travel Health
Are you going abroad?
Our pharmacy team can explain what malaria prevention medicines and vaccinations you and your family require for your holiday. Please speak to a member of staff about malaria protection and travel health products to help protect you and your family.
Call 01827 302260 go to the contact page