Smoking - quit services for diverse groups
Smoking - quit services for diverse groups
Tobacco smoking
is the most common cause of ill health and early death in Australia. Almost 21,000 Australians die from smoking-related diseases each year. This causes great loss and grief to families.
Tobacco smoke in your home also harms the health of your family
. Stopping smoking will help your health and your family.
Quit services can help you stop smoking. They are available in a number of languages.
Some doctors and other health professionals who speak community languages may:
give you advice on how to quit
help you call the Quitline
help you find other resources to help you quit.
Help to stop smoking
Quit
Victoria
External Link
offers the
Quitline
External Link
telephone interpreter service. This is a telephone information and advice service that supports people from culturally diverse communities to stop smoking.
You can:
Call
Quitline
External Link
on Tel.
13 78 48
and ask for an interpreter.
Ask your doctor or health service to refer you to Quitline. They can tell Quitline that you will need an interpreter.
Health
Translations
External Link
has a variety of information in community languages about
smoking
External Link
,
shisha
External Link
and
quitting
smoking
External Link
. Quit smoking information is in:
Arabic
Chinese (simplified and traditional)
Greek
Italian
Macedonian
Spanish
Vietnamese.
Other Health Translation pages about health effects of smoking and shisha may also include translations in Burmese, Dari, Hazaragi, Hindi, Pashto, Sinhalese, Somali, Tamil and Turkish. Available language translations vary from page to page.
The Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health has Quit smoking for baby fact
sheets
External Link
in Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Cantonese, Dari, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Karen, Khmer, Korean, Mandarin, Maori, Nepalese, Punjabi, Samoan, Spanish, Tamil, Thai, Tongan, Urdu and Vietnamese.
Where to get help
Quitline
External Link
Tel.
13 78 48
Your
GP (doctor)
Your
pharmacist
Community health
services
External Link
Community organisations