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More information about being smokefree
If you would like more information about becoming smokefree, or the effects of smoking, the following websites are helpful.
HealthInfo recommends the following pages
Local and New Zealand information
- Cancer Society – Smokefree
This page has links to many of the Cancer Society's resources on smoking, including personal stories, research, information about smoking and cancer, and more.
- Smokefree 2025 (Auahi Kore)
Information and resources about stopping smoking and helping others stop smoking.
- Hapū Hauora – Auahi kore (smokefree)
Information from a Māori perspective on being smokefree.
- Ministry of Health – Smoking
Read about the health effects of smoking, and resources to help you when you want to quit.
- The effects of smoking on lung function (Fletcher Peto diagram)
This diagram shows how your lung function declines with age and compares what happens if you do or don't smoke.
Resources for friends, family and others
- Quitline – Helping others quit
Advice for friends and family of people who are quitting.
- Ministry of Health – Smokefree law
Information about the smokefree law, how it affects workplaces, schools, and public areas, how to make complaints, infringement notices, and more.
International websites
- Australian Lung Foundation
- American Lung Association
- British Lung Foundation
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Smoking & tobacco use
Written by HealthInfo clinical advisers. Last reviewed February 2018.
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