Assistance with Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy
Help with smoking cessation
There are Quit programs in Australia and New Zealand that can provide assistance to you to help you cease smoking. Smoking during pregnancy can cause adverse health outcomes for your baby.
Quit Programs in Australia
Australian Quit programs
is a program of The Cancer Council of Victoria which encourages and assists smokers to quit smoking through
- Quitline telephone counselling - 131 848
From anywhere in Australia for the cost of a local call you can call this confidential telephone services for information, support and advice on smoking cessation. Also available free of charge are 'Quit Packs'. - Quit courses - call 131 848 to enrol
- Media activity and campaigns
- Programs supporting communities (click on 'Communities') such as Aboriginal and multi-cultural communities
Quit Now - the National Tobacco Campaign
This website is an initiative of the Population Health Division, Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing.
The website offers links to state and territory Quit services, facts about smoking, the science behind the campaign and anti-tobacco links.
Quit Programs in New Zealand
New Zealand programs
The Quit Group is a charitable trust set up to develop and provide smoking cessation programs in New Zealand.
To speak to a specialist cancer nurse contact:
Cancer Society - Auckland
09-308 0162 (Auckland) 0800-800 426 (outside Auckland)
Smokechange
Smokechange offers free, step-by-step support through change that is personalised, matched to individual readiness, can be home-based and 1 or 2 sessions or several over several months. Smokechange is a health-funded service provided by Education for Change for addressing smoking in pegnancy .
Contact Smokechange: 0800 00 50 50 (Smokechange invercargill) 09 357 0781(Smokechange Auckland)
