Smoking - quit services for diverse groups

Tobacco smoking is the most common cause of ill health and early death in Australia. Almost 21,000 Australians die from smoking-related diseases each year. This causes great loss and grief to families. Tobacco smoke in your home also harms the health of your family. Stopping smoking will help your health and your family.

Quit services can help you stop smoking. They are available in a number of languages.

Some doctors and other health professionals who speak community languages may:

• give you advice on how to quit
• help you call the Quitline
• help you find other resources to help you quit.

Help to stop smoking

Quit Victoria offers the Quitline telephone interpreter service. This is a telephone information and advice service that supports people from culturally diverse communities to stop smoking.
You can:

• Call Quitline on Tel. 13 78 48 and ask for an interpreter.
• Ask your doctor or health service to refer you to Quitline. They can tell Quitline that you will need an interpreter.

Health Translations has a variety of information in community languages about smoking, shisha and quitting smoking. Quit smoking information is in:

• Arabic
• Chinese (simplified and traditional)
• Greek
• Italian
• Macedonian
• Spanish
• Vietnamese.

Other Health Translation pages about health effects of smoking and shisha may also include translations in Burmese, Dari, Hazaragi, Hindi, Pashto, Sinhalese, Somali, Tamil and Turkish. Available language translations vary from page to page.

The Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health has Quit smoking for baby fact sheets in Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Cantonese, Dari, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Karen, Khmer, Korean, Mandarin, Maori, Nepalese, Punjabi, Samoan, Spanish, Tamil, Thai, Tongan, Urdu and Vietnamese.

Where to get help

• Quitline Tel. 13 78 48
• Your GP (doctor)
• Your pharmacist
• Community health services
• Community organisations