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Self-help quit smoking programs
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Online and phone/text resources
Your Guide to Quitting Smoking for Good
This workbook from Concordia University Health Services offers a comprehensive plan to quit smoking. The program promotes a cut down approach (typically 3 weeks) but can also be used if you want to quit "cold turkey" (i.e. "in one shot"). The program is divided into 3 sections: Understand Nicotine Addiction, Build the Right Attitude, and Build Coping Strategies.
Provincial and Territorial Quit Smoking Services
Find smoking cessation services in your province or territory.
I Quit Now
This site offers an interactive program “that will help you free yourself from tobacco”. There are links to resources such as a telephone help-line (1-866-527-7383 toll-free) and quit smoking centers throughout Quebec, where you can get one-on-one or group help from a smoking cessation specialist. They also offer a smoking cessation text message service that sends you personalized, supportive texts and helpful tips and tricks. It is sponsored by the Canadian Cancer Society and the Quebec Health Department. Bilingual.
On the Road to Quitting
This "guide to becoming a non-smoker" is a program from Health Canada.
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.
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.
