Tobacco control information for practitioners
In this section
- Primary health care professionals play an important role in prompting quit attempts. This page includes guidance to help patients quit smoking. Read more
- Definitions of ‘current smoker’, ‘ex-smoker’ and ‘never smoker’, and how to code non-daily, occasional, and social smokers. Read more
- The national result for the Better help for smokers to quit and More heart and diabetes checks health targets are now approaching the target threshold among DHBs. Although PHOs/DHBs have made great progress, we recognise that reaching the last few percentage points of the target can be difficult. Alternative approaches such as outreach activities and sector intelligence/IT tools can improve patient reach. Read more