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Quitting smoking at any age improves health and quality of life for you and people near you. Evidence confirms that even brief counselling by a health professional, particularly a general practitioner, can increase your chances of successfully quitting:
Australia's National Tobacco Strategy [Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing] is a policy framework for the Australian Government and State and Territory Governments to work together and in collaboration with non-government agencies to improve health and to reduce the social costs caused by tobacco.
Follow the links to find information on how to quit and the effectiveness of various ways of stopping smoking.
Updated June 2009
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Smoking - quit services for diverse groups
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Better Health Channel
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Quit services to help you stop smoking are available from a diverse range of organisations and in a number of community languages. Tobacco smoking is the single most common cause of ill health and premature death in Australia. In many communities from non-English speaking (NES) or culturally diverse (CALD) backgrounds, smoking rates are very high.
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Sep 2009
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Stop smoking
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The Cancer Council Australia
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Quitting smoking is one of the most important things you can do to reduce your risk of cancer. Tobacco smoke contains more than 4000 chemicals, including over 60 carcinogens or chemicals known to cause cancer.
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Aug 2009
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Quitting smoking
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The Cancer Council Australia
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Provides useful information and links to resources about giving up smoking.
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Aug 2009
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Quitting is worth it
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National Prescribing Service
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Quitting smoking has immediate long-term health benefits. Find out ways to help you quit smoking.
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Aug 2009
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Antidepressants for smoking cessation
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Multiple trials of bupropion (Zyban) for smoking cessation show that it increases the number of successful quit attempts. The side effects of bupropion include insomnia, dry mouth and nausea and rarely (1:1000) seizures and perhaps psychiatric problems,...
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Jul 2009
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Motivational interviewing for smoking cessation
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Motivational interviewing or its variants are widely used to help people stop smoking. It is a counselling technique for helping people to explore and resolve their uncertainties about changing their behaviour. It seeks to avoid an aggressive or confron...
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Jul 2009
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Mobile phone-based interventions for smoking cessation
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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More evidence is needed to determine if programmes delivered over mobile phones can help people to stop smoking. This review found text message mobile phone programmes to be effective in the short-term (six weeks), and a combined Internet-mobile phone p...
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Jun 2009
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Smoking - the financial cost
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Better Health Channel
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Smoking costs money as well as your health. Cigarettes are expensive. Quitting can save you money and future health costs too. If you smoke one pack of cigarettes each day for 10 years, you'll spend enough money to buy a new car or put a deposit on a house.
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Feb 2009
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Smoking - quitting tips
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Better Health Channel
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Quitting smoking can take several attempts. You can follow some simple strategies to help you become, and stay, a non-smoker. Quit cessation courses, counselling and telephone support can provide extra support. Nicotine replacement therapy is available through your pharmacist or your doctor can prescribe medication to help you quit.
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Jan 2009
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Interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of the mother having complications during pregnancy and the baby being born too small (with low birthweight) and too early (prematurely, before 37 weeks). Low birthweight has been associated with coronary hear...
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Dec 2008
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Smoking - weight gain and quitting
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Better Health Channel
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Most smokers gain a small amount of weight when they quit smoking. The causes include the effect of nicotine on the body and the ex-smoker's inclination to eat more. However you can quit and keep weight gain low. A few extra kilograms are a much lower health risk than continuing to smoke.
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Nov 2008
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Self-help interventions for smoking cessation
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Advice and behavioural counselling can help smokers to quit. Giving the same type of support via written materials or other media has not been found to be very helpful, although there is likely to be a small benefit for people given no other support. Ta...
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Nov 2008
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Giving up smoking
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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If you made the mistake of becoming a smoker you are probably aware of how hard it is to give up. Don't give up hope though because it can be done.
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Sep 2008
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Relapse prevention interventions for smoking cessation
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Some people start smoking again shortly after quitting and are said to have 'relapsed'. Interventions used to help people avoid relapse usually focus on teaching the skills to cope with temptations to smoke. This approach and others have not been shown ...
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Aug 2008
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Giving up smoking
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The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
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People can usually list many good reasons for not smoking or giving up smoking. Often they are the very people who cannot seem to stop, even when they know there is no safe level of smoking
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Jul 2008
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Clonidine for smoking cessation
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Clonidine is a drug used to lower blood pressure, but it may also reduce drug and alcohol withdrawal symptoms. The review of trials found that clonidine can lead to a small increase in the number of people likely to quit smoking. However, the quality of...
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Jun 2008
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Competitions and incentives for smoking cessation
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Smokers may quit while they take part in a competition or receive rewards for quitting, but do no better than unassisted quitters once the rewards stop. The type of reward, and whether or not the smokers put up their own money to take part, make little ...
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Apr 2008
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