The National Health Service (NHS) are offering smokers free 'quit kits' to support them in stopping smokersin in the New Year.

The NHS 'quit kit' will include calming 2 audio breathing and movement downloads, a stress toy, a progress wallchart, a toothbrush and a 'Health and Wealth' wheel which will show smokers how much money they can save by stopping smoking.

This new NHS smoking cessation support programme comes after recent studies have shown that the number of people quitting smoking with the help of the NHS has declined. In 2009 337,000 people stopped smoking with the help of the NHS. However, the figure of people stopping smoking  via the NHS in 2007-2008 was 350,480, 4 percent higher than the figure in 2009 even though the NHS spent £74 million on smoking cessation programmes in 2009.

In answer to this decline the NHS have spent an inital £700,000 on a total of 340,000 smoking 'quit kits' as well as national TV campaigns using children happily singing 'I'd do Anything' as they urge their parents to quit smoking.

The Department of Health and the NHS are looking to promote smoking cessation in an urge to the 1 in 5 smokers in the UK, with the ultimate aim to reduce the 80,000 smoking related deaths each year.

The new NHS smoking cessation free 'quit kits' are available by calling the NHS Quit Smoking Helpline 0800 0665 826 or by visiting the website www.nhs.uk/smokefree.