Better Help for Smokers to Quit
The Better Help for Smokers to Quit health target is designed to ensure health professionals, especially doctors, nurses and midwifes, routinely screen for tobacco use and then to offer smokers help to quit. The health target has been split to cover the following areas:
Secondary - 95 percent of patients who smoke and are seen by a health practitioner in public hospitals are offered brief advice and support to quit smoking
Primary Care - 90 percent of patients who smoke and are seen by a health practitioner in primary care are offered brief advice and support to quit smoking
Maternity - 90 percent of pregnant women who identify as smokers at the time of confirmation of pregnancy in general practice or booking with Lead Maternity Carer are offered advice and support to quit.
The Better Help for Smokers to Quit health target is designed to ensure health professionals, especially doctors, nurses and midwifes, routinely screen for tobacco use and then to offer smokers help to quit. The health target has been split to cover the following areas:
Secondary - 95 percent of patients who smoke and are seen by a health practitioner in public hospitals are offered brief advice and support to quit smoking
Primary Care - 90 percent of patients who smoke and are seen by a health practitioner in primary care are offered brief advice and support to quit smoking
Maternity - 90 percent of pregnant women who identify as smokers at the time of confirmation of pregnancy in general practice or booking with Lead Maternity Carer are offered advice and support to quit.
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NZ Literature Abstracts
- Cigarette smoking and risk of breast cancer in a New Zealand multi-ethnic case-control study
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- Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of electronic cigarettes versus nicotine patch for smoking cessation
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International Literature
- Smoking-related weight concerns and obesity: Differences among normal weight, overweight, and obese smokers using a telephone tobacco quitline (U.S.A.)
- Exploring the adequacy of smoking cessation support for pregnant and postpartum women (Canada)
- Past major depression and smoking cessation outcome: A systematic review and meta-analysis update
- School-based promotion of cessation support: Reach of proactive mailings and acceptability of treatment in smoking parents recruited into cessation support through primary schools (Netherlands)
- School-based programmes for preventing smoking (Cochrane Review)
Case Studies
- Consumer-clinician programme first-of-its-kind
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- Training-Led Smoking Cessation Strategy Reaps Rewards for Wairarapa
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