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Offers information to help you quit smoking.
Quitting smoking is the best thing you can do to improve your life and health.
Source: Health Canada
You're on your way to quit smoking. You want to succeed and wonder what is the best way for you to quit. Quitting smoking is a major decision.Your success depends mainly on your motivation as well as having personalized strategies for dealing with difficult situations.
Source: Department of National Defence
Deciding to quit smoking is tough. Smokers make this decision in their own time, for their own reasons.You can't do it for them, but you can help them to make the quitting process a little easier.
Source: Department of National Defence
Q4L is designed to help Canadians aged 12 to 18 quit smoking, even if you're just an occasional smoker. Use it to learn some new death-defying skills. Build your motivation and confidence to quit smoking using our 4-step plan. Learn about the roadblocks to quitting. Find out how to deal with stress.
Source: Health Canada
Quit Smoking resources include: self help, products, telephone help lines, websites, tips for quitting smoking and help a friend to quit smoking.
Source: City of Toronto
Quitting smoking early in your pregnancy helps increase the amount of oxygen your baby gets -- it happens after just one day of not smoking -- and increases the chances that their lungs will function normally. Quitting can also reduce the chances of stillbirth, sudden early infant death syndrome and also improves the health of the mother.
Source: Health Canada
Congratulations! You've taken the important first steps. This site will help you reach your goal of becoming an ex-smoker. It has great tips and plenty of information to help you on the road to quitting.
Source: Health Canada
Be ready to quit! It's tough to quit smoking because you must fight physical and psychological addictions and change habits.
Source: Department of National Defence
"20 minutes after your last cigarette, positive changes begin to occur in your system which continue for many years. It takes only one cigarette a day to compromise these beneficial changes"
Source: Department of National Defence
Provides tobacco regulations and promotes initiatives that reduce or prevent the harm associated with tobacco use.
Source: Health Canada
Every year, Yukoners just like you quit smoking. Each success is built on a unique combination of planning, desire, motivation, strategy, support and willpower. Many have found the resources they need through websites just like this. Read a few of the stories here on how they did it and see how you can too.
Source: Government of Yukon - Health and Social Services
A map of Canada showing the proportion of current smokers in each province and territory who are considering quitting. The data are derived from the Supplemental Tables 1996-1997 of the "Smoking Behaviour of Canadians" part of the National Population Health Survey web site. The provincial and territorial data are only represented within the settled area. The settled area represents more than 98% of the Canadian population captured in the 1996 Census of Canada. Option to zoom in and obtain exact numbers for specific areas.
Source: Natural Resources Canada
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