Introduction Have you made a New Year’s resolution to give up smoking? It won’t be easy, but research shows that there are treatments that can really help.

Go to rehab “Smoking is an addiction – just like being a heroin addict or an alcoholic,” says Dr Robert Lefever, founder of the Promis Centre, which treats nicotine addiction.

Your leader (November 15) says that obesity, alcohol and smoking will create a £30bn increase in NHS spending by 2020.