Inuit Tuttarvingat believes the Inuit Tobacco-free Network is an ideal way to:

The Inuit Tobacco-free Network also provides a listserv for information sharing.

The Inuit Tobacco-free Network aims to keep Inuit health workers and their colleagues up-to-date on tobacco reduction resources, research and events. Check here regularly to find out what's new.

New events:

Changing the Culture of Smoking
a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project

No Tobacco Week Challenge results, Ulukhaktok & Aklavik 11 January 2012 >>

This Month's Feature:

Congratulations to Two New Residents in Nain Who Chose To Be Smoke Free

 
The winners of “The Smoking Challenge”: Liz Pijogge and Johnny Ikkusek

New Resources:

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

• Congratulations to Two New Residents in Nain Who Chose To Be Smoke Free
  Elsie Diamond, Nunatsiavut Government
  

• Nunavut finds no iron-clad fix for anemia
  Nunatsiaq News, Nov. 16, 2010
  
  
• Changing the 'Culture of Smoking' Project:
  • Overview
  • Update, December 2010
  • Update November, 2010
    
    
• Tuberculosis (TB) and Tobacco Smoking
  Public Health Agency of Canada, 2010
  

• Updated in October 2010:
  What Works in Reducing Tobacco Use in Indigenous Communities? A Summary of Promising Practices for Inuit
  
  Other languages/dialects: French, Nunavut syllabics, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut
  
• Promising Practices in Reducing Tobacco Use For Inuit
  Poster presented at the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Health Research Meeting, Ottawa, May 13-14, 2010
  
  
• Fact Sheet on Smoke Free Homes-

          Inuit Specific | Inuktitut

          Adapted with permission from the Canadian        

          Centre For Tobacco Control, 2010

• Inuit Youth Flip Camera Project: Tobacco Cessation Videos >>
  watch video clips recorded by Inuit youth about tobacco and quitting smoking.
  Watch the Inuit language versions.

• Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada: Video Collection on Reducing Tobacco Use for Smokers

           See direct links in Videos

• Prenatal Decisions: A Workshop Model

           Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada

Last Update: January 30 2012