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Self-help quit smoking programs
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In-person resources
Concordia students, staff and faculty can meet with a health professional from Health Services for one-on-one smoking cessation counselling.
If you have a Quebec Medicare card: You can connect with a CLSC quit smoking center, where you can get one-on-one, in-person help from a smoking cessation specialist, or even join a support group.
Online and phone/text/app-based resources
Québec's interactive online program will help you quit smoking or vaping. It offers you a tracking tool, tailored tips and strategies for when you face challenges like cravings, exercises to build your quitting skills, and more. They offer a telephone help-line (1-866-527-7383 toll-free), where you can get support from a quit smoking specialist throughout the smoking cessation process.
The 'I Quit Now' program even offers a tool for those who aren't ready to quit smoking or vaping yet, but want to start cutting down.
Quash
A Canadian smoking-and-vaping cessation app-based program for youth and emerging adults ages 14-30. By the Lung Health Foundation & Health Canada.
Health Canada's cessation resources
- On the Road to Quitting guide to becoming a non-smoker; there is also a young adults version.
- I quit for me: Guide for youth who want to quit using tobacco, cigarettes, or vapes
- Quit with confidence: Guide to a smoke-free life
Canadian Cancer Society
The Canadian Cancer Society offers free online tools at smokershelpline.ca. They also offer two workbooks related to quitting smoking that you can view on-line or order a free copy: “One Step at a Time: You Can Quit” and “One Step at a Time: Help Someone Quit”. Available in French or English.
Nicotine Anonymous group
Nicotine Anonymous is “a fellowship of people helping each other to live our lives free of nicotine. We share our experience, strength, and hope with each other so that we may be free from this powerful addiction." It follows the 12-step tradition and approaches.
- They offer in-person, online, hybrid and conference call phone meetings that are offered at many different times.
- There are interesting readings that you may choose to read as part of immersing yourself in your Quit (click on the Literature tab).
Self-help books
Alan Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking
This is the world's best-selling book on quitting smoking. The Easy Way website offers 10 Best Tips to Help You Stop Smoking.
Love Not Smoking: Do something different by Karen Pine and Ben Fletcher
This book, written by two psychology professors, takes a behaviour modification approach.
