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Supporting smoking cessation: A guide for health professionals
Last revised: 06 Jan 2020
RACGP clinical guidelines
Quit Victoria
Australian Government: How to quit smoking
Scollo MM, Winstanley MH, editors. Tobacco in Australia: Facts and issues. A comprehensive online resource. 4th edn. Melbourne: Cancer Council Victoria, 2018.
Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (APSAD)
SANE: Resources on mental illness and smoking such as the Smokefree Zone resource pack and the Smokefree Kit for health professionals
Pharmaceutical company support programs: Including Breakroom
Treatobacco.net: Evidence-based information about the treatment of tobacco dependence
UK National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training: Very Brief Advice (VBA) training module
US Department of Health and Human Services: Treating tobacco use and dependence: 2008 update, clinical practice guideline
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Help for smokers and other tobacco users
Ministry of Health: The New Zealand guidelines for helping people to stop smoking
Ministry of Health: Background and recommendations of the New Zealand guidelines for helping people to stop smoking
World Health Organization: Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI)
Smoking cessation technical report (PDF 3.5 MB)
E-cigarettes for smoking cessation technical report (PDF 1.4 MB)
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