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Meeting smoking cessation goals involves knowing your ABCs
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Meeting smoking cessation goals involves knowing your ABCs
Wednesday 14 May 2025, 12:45 AM
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Healthcare Handbook editor and clinical pharmacist Carmen Pope explains how you can increase the number of people attempting to quit smoking, and how to increase the chances of quit attempts succeeding
TĀNE ASKS YOU for something for his cough, which he says is from a chest infection he had a couple of weeks ago. You sell him a herbal syrup. As you a
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1. BPACnz. Smoking cessation: supporting patients to break the cycle. 14 October 2024.
2. Smokefree. Smoking rates and figures.
3. Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora. Getting to Smokefree 2025: The final push to achieving the Smokefree 2025 goal. 27 November 2024.
4. Cochran C, Hoek J, Ball J. What will the Government’s free vape starter kit programme achieve? Public Health Communication Centre, 14 April 2025.
5. Pope C (Tech Ed). Smoking Cessation. Healthcare Handbook 2024–2025. Auckland, NZ: The Health Media Ltd; 2024.
6. Chaiton M, Diemert L, Cohen JE, et al. Estimating the number of quit attempts it takes to quit smoking successfully in a longitudinal cohort of smokers. BMJ Open 2016;6(6):e011045.
7. Toll BA, Rojewski AM, Duncan LR, et al. “Quitting smoking will benefit your health”: the evolution of clinician messaging to encourage tobacco cessation. Clin Cancer Res 2014;20(2):301–09.
8. Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora. Smoking Cessation. 8 January 2024.
9. Ministry of Health. Guide to Prescribing Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT). August 2021.
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