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# Quitting smoking
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Web sites - General
  • Gosmokefree
    A Health Canada Web site with information about tobacco use and quitting smoking.

  • QuitNet
    Quit smoking resources, including self-help "Quitting Guide," email support, and interactive chat with counsellors.

  • Smokers' Helpline Online
    Includes daily email support, and an interactive Web based quit program. Available in English and French.

  • Smokefree.gov
    Learn about your own risk and the benefits of quitting now.

  • Stop-Tabac
    University of Geneva interactive Web site. Service in English, German, Danish, Italian, French, Georgian, Serbo-Croatian and Chinese.

  • The Stop Smoking Center
    Interactive Web site helps you create a custom quit plan. Includes support group moderated by nurses to help you stay quit. Free.

  • The Quit Coach
    Interactive Web site developed at the Cancer Council Victoria, Australia.
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Web sites - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT)
  • Gay American Smoke Out
    An opportunity for LGBT individuals to challenge themselves to quit smoking.

  • Proud To Quit
    A quit site for LGBT smokers. Includes information about the quitting process and stop smoking aids, as well as a downloadable quit kit.
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Web sites - Pregnancy
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Web sites - Youth
  • Quit4Life
    A Health Canada Web site providing information about quitting smoking for ages 12-18. French and English.

  • Smoke-FX
    Designed to reach youth with tobacco control messages and news of local tobacco-related activities, via the Internet.
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Web sites - Professionals
  • CAMH Library & Archives
    The CAMH Library holds a comprehensive collection of published materials in a variety of formats supporting CAMH's programs and research; service is extended to professional communities throughout Ontario, with selected services available to the public.

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Provides a smoking and tobacco use site with evidence-based treatment information, as well as educational materials and extensive links to other sites.

  • Treatobacco
    Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and the World Health Organization presents evidence-based information on the treatment of tobacco dependence. Available in 11 languages.

  • World Health Organization (WHO)
    WHO information on tobacco.


Last updated May 2010

 
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