Quit campaign
The Quit campaign
VicHealth works to promote health and prevent the harmful effects of smoking by contributing to the funding of the Quit campaign.
VicHealth and Quit work with many aspects of smoking to reduce its harmful effects. These are our key strategies and activities.
Assisting smokers to quit
- Quitline telephone counselling and Quit courses
- media activity and campaigns
- programs supporting communities, such as Aboriginal and multicultural communities.
Working to prevent young people from taking up smoking
- support for legislation to increase the price of cigarettes, and restrict tobacco advertising, promotion and selling to under 18s
- smoking prevention education and professional development in schools
- community education programs encouraging adult role models
- Quit's sporting sponsorship with the SmokeFree message and a focus on prevention.
Working to reduce the number of places where people are exposed to harmful substances in tobacco smoke
- support for legislation to limit smoking in public places
- help for workplaces and public places wanting to become smokefree
- support for the SmokeFree message through sponsorship
- VicHealth's healthy environments policy, which maintains a tobacco control focus in its funding agreements - it states that funded indoor events must be smokefree.
Supporting legislative policy change
- collecting and distributing information on tobacco control issues to the public and a wide range of professionals
- participating in research into tobacco control issues
- publishing evaluation findings.