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The Quit Centre supports health professionals providing smoking & vaping cessation care. Funded by Aus Gov; managed by Cancer Council Vic.

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New infographic - How Quitline helps patients to stop smoking and/or vaping.
How does Quitline work? This infographic explains how to refer your patients, the role of Quitline counsellors, and the process for patients once you've made the referral.
https://t.co/s5iJE1zcz1

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Upgrading your best chances: People who smoke represent a large proportion of newly diagnosed patients with cancer. Postdiagnosis smoking cessation boosts life expectancy of patients with cancer.
Visit https://t.co/T1VyXnzcSU for resources to support your patients to quit.

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The Tobacco in Australia: Facts & Issues team analysed data from the 2022-23 National Drug Strategy Household Survey. Prevalence of smoking in people with chronic health conditions was higher in those from lower compared to higher socioeconomic areas. https://t.co/T1VyXnzcSU

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Smoking a single cigarette reduces life expectancy by about 20 minutes according to a new analysis by researchers from the University College London. This estimate, using the latest British data, has been recently published in the journal Addiction.
Visit https://t.co/T1VyXnzcSU

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Pharmacists Delivering Nicotine Dependence Treatment Under Vaping Reforms is a new online training module developed in partnership with the PSA. Insights for pharmacists into prescribing and dispensing therapeutic vapes.
https://t.co/oZ68n6mPyV

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One of our most requested resources has now been updated to include vaping: the Ask, Advise, Help chart. The AAH chart outlines the 3 steps of brief advice to start the conversation and support your patients who smoke and/or vape.
https://t.co/wIcz2bg1qF

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Tune into the podcast. Quit Centre Nurse Advisor Stacey Ridley recently recorded a podcast with Nursing Australia on vaping, vaping as a tool for smoking cessation, and resources for nurses to support their patients to stop smoking and/or vaping.
https://t.co/MKb9C2yNKv

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Quit Centre & Quit team members authored a useful article in Australian Prescriber on therapeutic vapes for smoking cessation & nicotine dependence. It informs health professionals about using therapeutic vapes to support people who are smoking or vaping.
https://t.co/AYCt6Is1Cq

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Quit Centre Quarterly Summer Edition is out now!
It’s full of new and updated resources for health professionals to support their patients in smoking and vaping cessation. With research, updates, training, articles and a podcast. And take our survey!
https://t.co/WOVhZe871j

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It’s Nurse Practitioner Week! We recognise the wonderful work that nurse practitioners do to support patients to quit smoking and vaping. In raising your ‘Voices for Health’, nurse practitioners are ‘Leading Change’ in this important area of health.
https://t.co/8UmfLo0PAh

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General practitioners, nurse practitioners, primary care nurses and community pharmacists – we know your time is precious, but please take five minutes to complete our health professional consultation survey. Your insights are important to us!
https://t.co/bBIEkIjrSL

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Navigating vape requests is complex. The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia is hosting a live webinar on best practices for managing therapeutic vape requests in pharmacies. Exploring best practices and potential issues. 25 Nov, 7:30pm. https://t.co/MKb9C2yNKv
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The new Tobacco in Australia: Facts & Issues website is live!
This comprehensive review of Australian and international research on tobacco use and policy includes downloadable citations for each section, interactive and shareable figures and tables.
https://t.co/MEWPrT7Oks

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We look forward to meeting with Nurse Practitioners at the 2024 ACNP National Conference in Cairns this week!

Quit Centre team members will be there to provide essential information and expert knowledge on smoking and vaping cessation.
https://t.co/8UmfLo0PAh

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November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death, responsible for almost 1 in 5 cancer deaths in Australia.
Provide brief advice to your patients who smoke, and get tools & resources to help your patients to quit. https://t.co/8UmfLo0PAh

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A prospective study examined e-cigarette use and respiratory symptoms in adolescents and young adults. Using four years of prospective data, it evaluated the associations of e-cigarette use with wheeze, bronchitic symptoms and shortness of breath.
https://t.co/qlftnczf51

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We look forward to connecting with researchers, advocates, policy makers and program administrators from Australia, NZ and Pacific Island nations, at the Oceania Tobacco Control Conference (OTCC) this week at the Gold Coast. Drop by our booth!
https://t.co/2dIHLJTvJs

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Vaping Reforms
From 1 July 2024 the Therapeutic Goods and Other Legislation Amendment (Vaping Reforms) Act 2024 has changed the way vapes can be sourced, supplied and advertised.
Keep up to date with vaping reforms at Quit Centre. https://t.co/XHQlRgUUr6

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Quit Centre Quarterly 10 is out now!
Read an overview of the vaping reforms and share our latest endorsed training & resources in maternity care.
Visit the refreshed Quit Centre website and explore the latest guidelines, tools, resources and training.
https://t.co/9RvXM89ZHe

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The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) is hosting an important webinar on 26 September 2024, with a roadmap for pharmacists to confidently navigate vaping reforms.
Learn from expert speakers, including Quit Centre's GP Lead Dr Eileen Cole.
https://t.co/cy5FMeQB9c