Lung Foundation Australia supports proven, registered, therapeutic smoking products cessation methods and medicines. We recommend a strategy that includes clinical counselling together with nicotine replacement therapy or other evidence-based forms of pharmacotherapy.
For your patients
Our dedicated quit smoking information page provides helpful tips and links for your patients about proven and approved methods to quit.
For you
The Quit Centre’s Clinical Tools & Guidelines page provides evidence-based resources for smoking cessation. It includes practical guides, clinical guidelines, and tools tailored for general practice, pharmacy, nursing, and maternity care. It also links to Quitline referrals and training modules.
In some cases, doctors can prescribe nicotine e-cigarettes as a means of weaning off tobacco use. There is little evidence that using this method is successful in achieving this outcome. For more information, click here.
The TGA VI page details how medical practitioners can prescribe nicotine vaping products for their patients where appropriate and their obligations when doing so
Lung Foundation Australia’s position on cessation of smoking products
This document provides our recommendations for cessation efforts and gives an overview of the evidence for cessation methods, Australian cessation services and products, key cessation statistics, and enablers and barriers to cessation.
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