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Healthcare providers

Healthcare providers are in a unique position to assist tobacco users. You encounter people at “teachable moments” when patients may be more inspired than usual to change unhealthy behaviours. Quitting smoking is the most important step a person can take to improve their health. The Driven to Quit Challenge can motivate your patients and clients to make a quit attempt.

How can a healthcare provider promote The Driven to Quit Challenge?

  • Ask all patients/clients about tobacco use at every visit and make a brief intervention (for more information visit www.smokershelpline.ca/refer)
  • Order Challenge promotional materials, free of charge and give them to patients/clients interested in quitting smoking, or who have a friend/family member who wants to quit
  • Display Challenge materials, such as posters and registration forms, in your waiting room

Let us help you get started!

Contact us for free Driven to Quit materials, such as posters, registration forms, brochures and other ideas. We can also offer Canadian Cancer Society Smokers’ Helpline materials for free.

E-mail: driventoquit@ontario.cancer.ca Call: Smokers’ Helpline at 1 877 513-5333

 
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The Driven to Quit Challenge is presented in collaboration with your local public health department.
Prizes made possible through the generous support of McNeil Consumer Healthcare.