Tobacco Control

CD Week 22

Smoking, Pregnancy and Fertility

Quitnow

• Australian Government Initiative • Various tools to calculate:

– Effects of smoking– Level of addiction– Financial Cost– Email reminders – Information about services

• Quitcoach:– Personalised quit plans– Email reminders

Role of health professionals in smoking cessation:

• Advice on quitting: – Distribution of information– Providing a plan– Support for those with mental illness

• Medication advice: – Nicotine replacement therapy– Prescription medication: • Varenicline (Champix) or Bupropion

Perceived barriers to involvement

How might these be addressed?

Reflections on GP Placements

• What have we observed so far?

Challenges in specific population groups

• Prison inmates• Pregnant Women• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Australians• Maori peoples• Arabic-speaking Australians