HGV driver Pete Milner is breathing more easily and sleeping better just six weeks after giving up smoking with the support of York Health Trainers.

Pete, from the Stockton Lane area of York, said he had smoked for more than 50 years before a diagnosis of COPD finally prompted him to quit.

He was referred to the Health Trainer service and chose to use nicotine patches to help him stop with regular support sessions from health trainer Toni over the phone.