Looking to stop smoking, manage your weight or build healthier habits? Choose You offers free health and wellbeing support for people who live or work in Bedford, Central Bedfordshire or Milton Keynes.

Making changes to your health and wellbeing can feel challenging, but the right support can help you take manageable steps towards a healthier lifestyle.

Choose You is a free service offering a range of personalised support to help people improve their health and wellbeing. Whether you want to stop smoking, manage your weight, access family support or make positive lifestyle changes, there are different options available to suit your needs.

What support is available?

Choose You offers a range of services for adults, families and people at different stages of life, including:

  • Stop-smoking support: Flexible help to quit smoking, available in person or over the telephone.
  • Healthy weight programme: A 12-week programme for adults, available online or in person, to support healthier weight management.
  • Family support: One-to-one support for families with children aged 2-12.
  • Pregnancy and early parenthood support: One-to-one guidance during pregnancy and up to two years after birth.
  • Health and wellbeing coaching: Support to help you develop healthier habits and work towards your personal health goals.

The service aims to help people access advice and support that fits around their circumstances, making it easier to take positive steps towards better health.

Support for professionals and community organisations

Choose You also works with professionals and community organisations to help more people access the support available.

Free training is offered to professionals who want to help people who smoke, including Stop Smoking Level Two Advisor training.

The Choose You team can also attend community events and team meetings to introduce the service, explain how it works and provide information about referral routes. This is an opportunity for local organisations to learn more about the support available and help connect people with the services they need.

How to access Choose You

If you live or work in Bedford, Central Bedfordshire or Milton Keynes and would like to find out more, you can visit the Choose You website to explore the available support or refer yourself to the service.

Visit: www.chooseyou.co.uk

For further information, you can also contact Kath Harding, Public Health Engagement Officer, at Kath.Harding@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk.

If you know someone who could benefit from this support, consider sharing the information with them. Helping people find the right advice and support can be an important first step towards building healthier habits and improving wellbeing.