Tackling Indigenous Smoking
Tackling Indigenous Smoking (TIS) rates is part of Quit's long-term commitment to Aboriginal programs.
What are TIS activities
Tackling Indigenous Smoking (TIS) activities take a population health approach which aims to inform and support people in their decisions not to smoke or vape and/or to quit smoking or vaping.
These activities will:
Encourage Community engagement in and support for local TIS activities
Increase Community understanding of the dangers of smoking and chewing tobacco and the links between tobacco and chronic disease, as well as the dangers of e-cigarettes and vaping
Increase awareness of the pathways to quitting among workers and Community leaders
Seek to reduce exposure to second-hand and third-hand smoke
Improve access to targeted support to quit through clinical and non-clinical services
Encourage and facilitate use of Quitline for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
TIS-funded organisations are part of an overall preventive health system. Access to clinical best practices (behavioural and pharmacological) will help people who smoke increase their likelihood of quitting successfully. A TIS-funded organisation that has clinical services might offer some of these activities itself. Developing referral pathways to the services available locally, whether your own or another service, is a central part of TIS work.
Such services include:
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Quitline support
Smoking and vaping cessation counselling
Developing skills and training opportunities for their staff and other organisations to be able to deliver brief intervention.
TIS-funded organisations develop and implement smoke-free policies within their own organisation and can support other organisations to implement their own smoke-free policies.
