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Information for tobacco control professionals
Becoming a Smoking Cessation Provider
The Quit Group
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Details on how to become a Quit Cards provider. |
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Details on Aukati Kai Paipa training and recent training presentations. |
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The National Heart Foundation provides cessation training for health professionals. There is also training available for those who work specifically with Pacific audiences see here and here. |
Legislation
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This Ministry of Health website provides information and resources to support the implementation and enforcement of the Smoke-free Environments Act, including a Guide to the Smoke-free Environments Act 1990. |
Policy Development
National Drug Policy New Zealand
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Here you’ll find information about New Zealand policy development in tobacco control, including the Ministry of Health's role. Links to related documents are also provided |
Research and Evaluation
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This section of the ASH website contains in-depth New Zealand research, and key international research, on smoking and second-hand smoke, New Zealand and overseas tobacco industry documents, tobacco products and what’s in them, facts about tobacco, New Zealand smokefree legislation and strategies for tobacco control. |
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This page summarises research findings into smoking and Māori, and provides links to documents containing further information. |
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This page of the HSC’s (Health Sponsorship Council’s) website contains links to a number of tobacco control research documents. |
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This page contains a number of reports, publications and presentations grouped under two headings: Facts and Figures, and Publications. Statistical analysis and studies including Māori, Pacific and Youth, the Quitline, advertising campaigns and legislation are included. |
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This page contains links to key research projects and summaries of their findings. There are also a number of second-hand smoke reports that contain detailed information about the health effects of exposure to second-hand smoke, morbidity and mortality rates etc. |
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This page contains research and reports developed by the Smokefree Coalition, often in partnership with other tobacco control organisations. |
Resources
(see also the resources section under General information about tobacco and smoking).
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This site contains a number of fact sheets with topics such as Smoking Statistics, Smoking and Disease, Economics, Second-hand Smoke, Preventing tobacco-related harm, Tobacco industry in New Zealand, Year 10 Survey 2005, and more. |
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This website outlines HSC’s (Health Sponsorship Council’s) social marketing approach to tobacco control and includes links to the Reducing Smoking Initiation Framework, research and resources. |
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New Zealand Smoking Cessation Guidelines provide updated guidance for health care workers in their contacts with people who smoke tobacco. They can be downloaded in PDF format from this page of the Ministry of Health website. |
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A page containing a range of resources and information relating to the requirements of the Smoke-free Environments Act 1990 (some of which can be downloaded), including pamphlets, posters, stickers, signs, TV commercials, and an open areas calculator can be found at http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/wpg_Index/About-smokefreelaw-resources. |
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This page of the Smokefree Coalition website provides links to a number of online publications and resources, some produced by the Coalition, and some by others. Fact sheets, submission documents, reports, and the most recent Smokefree/Auahi Kore Directory are also included on this page. |
Media Releases
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This page contains ASH media releases, plus letters to the editor, and news links to the BBC, CNN and SCOOP websites. |
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This page contains media releases, fact sheets, and information about The Quit Group activities, research and media campaigns. |
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This page contains Smokefree Coalition media releases, and links to news stories about tobacco (local and international) over the last year. |
Newsletters
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Smokefree Times – a semi-regular newsletter for tobacco control professionals. Past copies are archived. |
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Quit Chat – three monthly newsletter for tobacco control professionals. Past copies are archived. |
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Tobacco Control Update – a fortnightly e-newsletter for tobacco control professionals. Past copies are archived. |
Public Health Initiatives and Regulation
National Drug Policy New Zealand
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This page contains a large range of reports and documents regarding tobacco-related public health initiatives and regulation. |
Schools/Children
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This website aims to help schools/kura make a commitment to a healthy smokefree environment. The site includes information to support and strengthen smokefree school environments and communities, as well as to assist teachers and in-school health providers. Curriculum resources are also provided. |
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Lungfish is a tobacco control education resource for young people aged 7-12 years. It aims to educate and normalise smokefree attitudes and behaviours through interactivity and entertainment. |
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This section of the Ministry of Health website is designed to help managers of schools/kura and early childhood centres/kohanga reo understand what is required of them under New Zealand’s smokefree legislation and provides information to help them comply. |
Tobacco Industry
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This page provides links to tobacco industry documents, and an extensive menu of articles related to the tobacco industry. |
