Support online: help to quit smoking
Health and tobacco sites
Lung Associations
Other health associations
Support online:
help to quit smoking
About.com:
Smoking Cessation
Dedicated to smoking cessation. Lots of links to the the latest news and
help quitting smoking.
Ashline.org
The Arizona Smokers' Helpline website is your one stop
resource for information to help you quit tobacco. The "coping" pdf files on our web site were kindly provided by ashline.
DontSmoke.com
Helping diehard smokers kick the habit and stop smoking. The site, contains
audio and visual tapes, books, software, personal stories and a variety
of other sources to help people in their efforts to quit smoking.
Great American Smokeout
An American Cancer Society site.
No Smoke Cafe
A motivation site with stories of others' struggles to quit and the reasons
why they have quit. For example, the Wall of Ex-smokers where you post your
date and reasons for wanting to quit to the wall. When it gets hard, visit
the wall to remind yourself of all the good reasons you want to quit.
One Step
at a Time
Free self-help smoking cessation program.
Quit
Tips: Don't let another year go up in smoke
Sympatico
Health Central: Stop Smoking Change Centre
The QuitNet
Peer to peer support, quitting strategies, Q-gadget — tracks lifetime
and money saved, expert counselors, personal profiles, anniversary emails
and lots more!
QuitSmokingSupport.com
Chat rooms and bulletin boards, quit smoking assistance, and teen information.
Tobacco
BBS: Quit Smoking Tips
TobaccoFree.org
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Health and
tobacco sites
Adbusters:
Spoof Ads
Tips on how to create your own print ad.
BADvertising
Creative and thought-provoking spoofs on tobacco advertising.
BC Ministry of Health:
Tobacco Facts
Features interactive fun and games, and facts about smoking and about the
tobacco industry. Has links to other interesting sites.
Breed's Collection
of tobacco history sites
For example there are links to sites on old tobacco ads, tobacco places
to visit, tobacco in literature, tobacco in film and video and lots more.
Be patient, there are so many links here, it's easy to get lost in the web.
Canadian Council for Tobacco
Control (CCTC)
A non-profit organization specializing in tobacco and health issues. CCTC
promotes a comprehensive tobacco control program involving educational,
social, fiscal and legislative interventions that can be accessed directly.
Canadian
Health Network
Provides easy access to information, resources, and FAQs about tobacco,
including games and quizzes.
CANOE: C-Health
Links to lots of health related information.
CBC News: Indepth:
Smoking Up a Storm
Centres for
Disease Control and Prevention
Provides the latest research on substance use and abuse issues and also
offers information on programs that are effective in reducing substance
abuse.
Health
Canada: Tobacco Reduction
Offers information about tobacco control in Canada and links to Nick's Yellow
Fingers Club.
Join
Together Tobacco Project
Accessibility of cigarettes for kids.
National Clearinghouse
on Tobacco and Health (NCTH)
Non Smokers' Rights
Association
Founded by Patrick Reynolds, a grandson of the tobacco company founder R.J.
Reynolds. The family's cigarette brands, Camel and Winston, killed his father
and eldest brother. In 1986, he became the first tobacco industry figure
to turn his back on the cigarette makers. Lots of links to information on
the Canadian tobacco industry and Canadian news.
Physicians for a Smoke-Free
Canada
Contains facts about cigarette sales and marketing strategies
and an interactive exercise to determine the amount of chemicals inhaled by
smokers and through second-hand smoke.
Tobacco BBS
The latest news related to tobacco and health, politics and education from
around the world in the Hot News section.
Tobacco
Timeline: A History of Tobacco
World No-Tobacco Day:
The Canadian Tobacco Papers
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Canadian
Lung Association
Provincial
Lung Associations
- Alberta Lung Association
- British Columbia Lung
Association
- Manitoba Lung Association
- New Brunswick Lung Association
- Newfoundland Lung
Association
- Nova Scotia Lung Association
- Prince Edward Island
Lung Association
- L'Association Pulmonaire
du Québec
- Saskatchewan Lung Association
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Other health
associations
- American Lung Association
- Canadian Society of Respiratory
Therapists
- Ontario Respiratory Care Society
- Ontario Thoracic Society
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