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  1. Smoking and tobacco

    Information about smoking including fact sheets on the effects on your body, smoking-related conditions and quitting.

  2. What to expect when you quit smoking

    Quitting smoking is the best thing you will ever do for your health. Withdrawal can be challenging, but it can help if you look at the symptoms as signs that your body is recovering.

  3. Smoking – Quit services for Aboriginal communities

    While the smoking rate in Australian Aboriginal communities is decreasing, it is still more than three times the national average. Smoking is the cause of one in five deaths in Aboriginal communities.

  4. Smoking - quit services for diverse groups

    Resources to stop smoking are available in a variety of languages and are distributed free of charge.

  5. Smoking and vaping - how to discourage your children

    You are a role model for your child - what at you do can influence your child, including if you quit smoking or vaping.

  6. Pregnancy and smoking

    Smoking while pregnant exposes a woman and her unborn child to an increased risk of health problems.

  7. Smoking - Learn how to break your smoking habits (video)

    Learn from Quit Victoria Quitline specialist about how to break your smoking habits and quit smoking. Learn her tips on triggers and how to avoid them.

  8. Asthma and smoking

    Breathing in other people's cigarette smoke can be harmful to a person with asthma, especially a child.

  9. Victoria’s tobacco and e-cigarette laws

    Smoking kills more Victorians every year than road accidents, alcohol and other drugs combined. To minimise the health effects of tobacco on individuals and the community, Victoria has laws controlling cigarette sales and where people can smoke.

  10. Smoking - Understand your smoking addiction (video)

    Do you understand why you smoke. Nicotine addition is only one part of a three part journey to quitting smoking.

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