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• GPs offer smokers cash to quit 

GPs will pay successful quitters out of their own pockets
Jump to full article: BBC Online, 2004-03-04

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Doctors at a Gloucestershire surgery are offering smokers a £20 reward if they kick the habit for a month.

The GPs, at Frampton-on-Severn, are funding the initiative out of their own pockets to tie in with National No Smoking Day on 10 March.

Willing patients will also get free patches, gum or other nicotine replacement therapies.

Dr Charles Buckley said: "It's not a huge sum, but will pay for an evening out, perhaps a meal.

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