What have health professionals learned about quitting?

Wanting to make a change
You need to choose to stop smoking – and you have to really want to stop.

Planning
Having a plan makes a big difference. Understanding your smoking, what triggers you to smoke and what to do instead will help you get through.

Double your chances
Research has shown that people who use NRT to quit smoking are more likely to succeed. And combining NRT with counselling (like Quitline) more than doubles your chances of quitting, and staying a non-smoker.

Trained counsellors are available 24 hours
a day, every day of the week at the
Quitline – 13 7848.

What do other young women think?
Lots of women have quit smoking successfully. Sometimes it takes a few attempts, but you learn something each time – and each time you have a better chance of succeeding.

We talked to lots of young women when we were developing this web site. Everyone’s different, but many of the young women have similar stories about what worked when they were trying not to smoke. They suggested:

What do other young women think cont?

• put headphones on and listen to music
• go for a walk or a drive
• read a magazine
• eat something
• text or call someone
• spend your money on something else.

> Read what other women have actually said in stories