On this page, you have access to a range of resources providing additional information and advice about quitting smoking.
- The Harms of Smoking - PDF
The important facts about smoking and your health.
- The Health Benefits of Quitting - PDF
The good news about how you will improve your health if you become a nonsmoker.
- Strategies for Stopping - PDF
Methods to help you follow through on your decision to quit smoking.
- Stop-Smoking Medication - PDF
A guide to the main stop-smoking medications and whether they may be helpful for you.
- Dealing With Nicotine Withdrawal - PDF
Overview of the main withdrawal symptoms you might experience and some strategies for combating them.
- Understanding Your Smoking - PDF
Notes and exercises to better understand how and when you smoke, and prepare you to develop a new smokefree lifestyle.
- The Rewards of Quitting - PDF
Some of the positive lifestyle changes that come with quitting smoking, and how you can use them to stay motivated on your quit attempt.
- Getting Through the Early Days - PDF
Strategies and tips for dealing with the first few days after making a quit attempt.
- Becoming a Nonsmoker - PDF
How to deal with some of the challenges in staying quit once you are past the first period of cravings, and adjusting to being a nonsmoker.
- Dealing With Stress - PDF
Things you can do to help manage feeling stressed or other bad feelings, which only take a few minutes or less. Useful anytime, not just when you are craving a cigarette.
- Making Your Home Smokefree - PDF
Ways to go about introducing a smoking ban in your home to increase your chance of a successful quit attempt.
- Helping Others Quit Smoking - PDF
Ways you can assist and support someone who has decided to quit smoking, and encourage them to stay quit.
- Killing Off Your Habit - PDF
Advice that will be relevant for you if you only need to smoke in a few situations, and alternate strategies that may work better for you.
- Problem Planner
An interactive tool to help you plan ahead of time what you will do when you encounter a tempting situation. Write your own personal quit advice!
- Smoking Diary - PDF
A useful activity to help you pinpoint why, when and where you smoke, so you can be prepared for future temptations or better understand where you are having trouble.
- Cravings and Smoking Diary - PDF
An exercise to help keep track of your cravings, and help you think about what you can do to make it easier to beat them.
- Reasons for Quitting - PDF
A way for you to clarify your reasons for quitting and use them as motivation to stay quit.
- Light at the End of the Tunnel - PDF
Some of the emotional stages you may go through in the quitting process, and what to expect in the long-term.