Quitting
There are a number of reasons to quit smoking:
- For the health of your whanau - Very few smokers want their tamariki to start smoking
- To save money -Giving up smoking is like getting a pay rise. In a year you save about $3,800 if you smoke 20 a day.
- Improve your appearance - Smoking starves your skin of oxygen making it dry and grey. You develop wrinkles around your eyes and mouth much earlier, and the tar stains your teeth and fingers.
- Increase your fitness -Smoking makes it harder for you to exercise and reduces the benefits to your body.
- Taking control of your life and kicking the habit!! Quitting smoking is a challenge. Once you have set the goal to quit and succeeded, you will feel really proud of yourself. Quitting helps you take on other challenges
And there is help available!
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Aukati Kai Paipa is a free kanohi ki te kanohi service that is delivered locally within most communities. This programme offers Māori and their whānau, the opportunity to address their smoking addiction through a range of services. Services include free nicotine patches or gum, motivational counseling and ongoing support. |
The Quitline Callers can request a quit pack with practical quit smoking advice and information, register for support or get exchange cards for subsidised nicotine patches or gum where suitable. ($5.00 for the first four weeks supply of patches or gum). Quitline Advisors recognise relapse is a normal part of the quitting process and welcome calls from people who have relapsed. If you want to talk to a Quit Advisor about quitting, call the Quitline |
