SOUTH Buckinghamshire NHS Trust is hosting a series of events to encourage smokers to quit on No Smoking Day.

Smokers are being urged to make tomorrow a 'day to remember' by offering anyone who manages to quit cigarettes for a month the chance to win £5,000 in a national prize draw.

Local nurses and smoking cessation advisers will be giving smokers information and advice and details on the prize draw at Wycombe Hospital's main entrance, Amersham Hospital's Whielden Street entrance and outside the Guildhall in High Wycombe town centre.

All three stands will have special breath testing machines which measure carbon monoxide levels, the more you smoke, the higher they are.

Eileen Salter, an occupational health nurse at Amersham and Wycombe hospitals, said: "We will be encouraging people to make March 13 their day to remember by giving up smoking."

And to coincide with No Smoking Day, the Buckinghamshire Alliance for Action on Smoking (BAAS) has produced a booklet for those people who hate the smell of cigarette smoke in restaurants.

Food without Fumes is a local guide to smoke-free eating places in the county, including restaurants, pubs with eating areas, cafes, coffee and tea-shops and hotel restaurants.

Food without Fumes is available free of charge from Tourist Information Centres, public libraries, GP surgeries, stop smoking clinics and the website www.smokescape.org