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• Cess@tion Study offers chance to trial a natural stop-smoking aid

  Posted: Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in: Vacancies With tags: volunteers, smoking, research
  Smokefree May is the perfect time to kick the habit and the National Institute for Health Innovation (NIHI) invites any smoker who wants to make a healthy change to sign up for a study that will test cytisine - a natural product which has been shown to he

• The message is clear: We want tobacco out of Aotearoa now

  Posted: Wednesday, August 25, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: smokefree, smoking, meeting
  Smokefree Canterbury media release: 24th August 2021 Dame Aroha Reriti-Crofts and fellow members from the Ōtautahi Māori Women’s Welfare League do not want to wait another day

• Students would rather quit smoking than pay more for cigarettes

  Posted: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: research, young people, smoking, vaping
  University of Canterbury media release: 30th June 2020 A University of Canterbury (UC) study suggests that university students in New Zealand would be more likely to quit smoking if the price of cigarettes increases

• Stop smoking support still available from Te Ha – Waitaha

  Posted: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: smokefree, smoking, services, support
  The Canterbury stop smoking service - Te Hā – Waitaha - is continuing to support people wishing to become smokefree during level 4 of the Covid-19 response

• Latest Quitline campaign: Quit for your pets

  Posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 in: Resources and Information With tags: smoking, campaign
  We’re a nation of pet lovers with over 4.6 million pets! We all know that smoking is bad for humans. What you may not know is that second-hand and third-hand smoke can have some really nasty consequences for animals