Support to Stop Smoking/Vaping
Free HSE Stop Smoking/Vaping Courses on Campus
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Quitting smoking/vaping is the best thing you can do for your health and the environment. Have you tried quitting as part of a group?
Our next support group on campus will start in Oct/Nov 2026. The course is held in College Health on Tuesdays at 1pm for 6 weeks.
When: Tuesdays at 1pm for 6 weeks; starting date will be in Oct/Nov 2026, date TBC
Where: An Mheitheal Meeting Room, College Health, Printing House Square How to find the Seminar Space in Printing House Square
How: Registration link TBC in Oct 2026
Who: Students, staff, alumni and friends Contact email: health.promotion@tcd.ie
Course facilitated by: The Health Service Executive, supported by College Health.
The course covers topics like readiness to stop, dealing with cravings, the pros and cons of stopping and using patches or nicotine replacement therapies. The HSE provides free Nicotine Replacement Therapy (e.g. nicotine patches, lozenges etc).
You can find the local Quit group and clinics throughout Ireland here, the HSE Quit website is a great resource, as is Quitline telephone service (1800 201 203) and this HSE guidance on vaping and e-cigarettes.
Trinity is a tobacco free campus and vape free campus. Trinity would very much welcome strong governmental restrictions to ban vaping as a means of supporting all in our mission to work towards facilitating healthy people on a healthy planet.