Schools have an important role to play in preventing as many young people as possible from taking up smoking. However, schools cannot be expected, and nor are they expected, to be totally responsible for this goal. Quit provides support and resources to help reduce youth smoking rates.
Quit Educators are trained and accredited by Quit Victoria (a unit of The Cancer Council Victoria). They are regularly updated on the latest information about helping people to quit smoking.
Quit's Multicultural Project works with community groups, ethnic organisations, welfare, health and educational organisations and the ethnic media, to reduce illness and suffering caused by smoking and by exposure to cigarette smoke.
Quit Victoria has funded an Aboriginal Tobacco Control Project Coordinator position for the past thirteen years. This program delivers Aboriginal health worker training, supports Aboriginal health workers in their efforts to promote smoking cessation, and funds grants to Aboriginal health services for smoking cessation promotion.
Smokers with mental health conditions will often have a complicated relationship with their smoking.