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How counselling can help you quit smoking or vaping

Trying to quit smoking or vaping? Discover how counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy can support you to change habits and stay quit.

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How to stay healthy after quitting smoking

Learn how to avoid smoking again, check your lung cancer screening eligibility and why quitting vaping matters.

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Nicotine pouches exposed: what you need to know

Nicotine pouches, sometimes known as 'zyns,' are small pouches filled with white powder. This powder contains nicotine, flavourings, and other ingredients.

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How can Quitline help?

Quitline counsellors can help you create your own step-by-step plan to quit smoking or vaping, and support you throughout your quit journey.

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Top strategies to cope with withdrawal

Nicotine withdrawal symptoms such as cravings, feeling irritable, feeling anxious and finding it hard to concentrate, can be a challenge.

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How shisha is harmful

Shisha smoke harms you and others around you, including babies and children. Shisha is a way of smoking tobacco using a waterpipe. Learn more about how shisha is harmful.

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How to practise quitting

You know the saying ‘practice makes perfect’? Well, it’s as true for people preparing to quit as it is for athletes and musicians.

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How much money is smoking costing you?

It's no secret that smoking is expensive. Exactly how much does it cost you? What could you be spending that money on?

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See through the haze

Poisonous chemicals like those in biofuel, paint thinner and bug killer are in your vape. It’s time to see through the haze.

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Smoking and surgery – how quitting can help you

New research shows that quitting at least four weeks before undergoing surgery can greatly reduce your risk of smoking-related complications. And quitting can even improve your recovery.

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Your quitting journey

Quitting smoking is one of the most powerful choices you can make—not only for your own health but also for the people who matter most in your life.

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Celebrating 40 years of Quitline counselling

Generations of Australians have been supported to quit smoking and vaping. With a wealth of experience, Quitline counsellors are here to support people to quit, every step of the way.