resources

Cessation Counselling

Inuit:

Health Canada’s Non-Insured Health Benefits cover pharmaceutical tobacco cessation aids for Inuit
Health Canada 2010 (see pages 20-21)

Updated in October 2010:

What Works in Reducing Tobacco Use in Indigenous Communities? A Summary of Promising Practices for Inuit

Prepared for the Inuit Tobacco-free Network, 2010

Other dialects/languages available: Nunavut syllabics, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, and French

Project Overviews of Smoking Cessation programs for Inuit

Written by Inuit Tuttarvingat, National Aboriginal Health Organization. January, 2010

Born Smoke Free | Inuktitut version

Quit to Win | Inuktitut version

Blue Light Campaign | Inuktitut version

Qanuqtuurniq - Finding the Balance TV Phone-In Series on Inuit

The videos on this site provide public service announcements about smoking. Time codes to be posted soon. By Inuit Tuttarvingat, National Aboriginal Health Organization.

If You Know Someone Who Has Quit Smoking and Would LIke to be Featured in News North- Northwest Territories, please call 1-867-920-6907

Quitting is Easier If You Have Help! Quitlines

Government of Northwest Territories, 2009

Quitting Smoking? Product and Benefit Programs That Can Help!

Government of Northwest Territories, 2009

Pregnant and Smoke-free

First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, 2007

Why Quit Smoking? Information For You, a Friend or a Family Member

Dep't of Health and Social Services. GN 2006

First Nations, Inuit and Aboriginal Health: Media Campaigns, Facts about Tobacco

(English and Inuktitut) Health Canada, 2005

                  Inuktitut Text:

Think Twice Before You Light Up

Cigarettes Hurt Babies

Nurse

Unexpected

Workplace

Healing from Smoking: A Step by Step Guide for Smokers

Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services; Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada. 2004

Helping Smokers Quit: A Health Professional's Guide

Northwest Territories/ Department of Health and Social Services. 2003

Helping Smokers Heal: A Guide For Counsellors

Nunatsiaq News: Non-smoking in the girls’ room

Odile Nelson. November 22, 2002

Tobacco 2002: Community Projects; Innovations from Alberta

Richard Jenkins

Breathing Easy: Leaflets on Quitting Smoking

English link not available at this time

Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, 1997

                 Main Page- Inuktitut

  • Benefits of Quitting

                 Baffin

                 Nunatsiavut

                 Inuinnaqtun

  • Ways of Quitting

                 Baffin

                 Nunatsiavut

                 Inuinnaqtun

  • Quitting Tips

                 Baffin

                 Nunatsiavut

                 Inuinnaqtun

  • The Money You Save From Not Smoking

                 Baffin

                 Nunatsiavut

                 Inuinnaqtun

Breathing Easy: Posters

English link not available at this time

Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, 1997

                 Main page-Inuktitut

  • Welcome To Our Smoke Free Home

                 Nunatsiavut   

  • How Your Body Recovers

                  Bafiin

                  Inuinnaqtun

                  Nunatsiavut

  • If You Smoke a Pack A Day, You'll Inhale a Litre of Tar Over a Year

                   Baffin

                   Inuinnaqtun

                   Nunatsiavut

  • All Our Loved Ones Deserve a Healthy Future

                  All Dialects

  • The Money You Save From Not Smoking

                  Baffin

                  Inuinnaqtun                 

                  Nunatsiavut

 

Canadian:

Aboriginal Users of Canadian Quitlines: An Explorative Analysis

Hayward, L.M., Campbell, H.S., and Sutherland-Brown, C. Tobacco Control, 2007

Tobacco Cessation Drug Therapy Among Canada's Aboriginal People

Wardman D., Quantz D., Tootoosis J., and Khan N. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 2007

Helping People Quit Smoking

Registered Nursing Association of Ontario

Pregnets: Smoking Cessation for Pregnant and Post- Partum Women - A Toolkit

Pregnets; October 1, 2003

Pregnets: Nicotine Replacement Therapy- Fact Sheet

                     Inuktutit--click here

Centre For Addiction and Mental Health

International Indigenous:

Effectiveness of A Tobacco Quitline in an Indigenous Population: a comparison between Alaska Native people and other first-time quitline callers who set a quit date

Boles M, Rohde K, He H., et al. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2009

 

Australian Repiratory Council, 2007

Quit Rates At One Year Follow Up of Alaska Native Medical Center Tobacco Cessation Program

Hensel, M.R., Cavanagh, T., Lanier, A.P., et al. Alaska Medicine, 1995

Heale R. and Griffin, M.T. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2009

Anczak, J.D. and Nogler, R. A. Clinical Medicine and Research, 2003


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Last Update: April 07 2011

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