We offer face to face support, financial incentive programmes and free NRT products. Smokefree South Canterbury is a page to exchange your experiences, views and ideas on quitting smoking. This is where you can share helpful tips and motivations or ask for advice on how to become smokefree. More than 5000 kiwis die every year because of smoking. We want to lower this grim statistic but we can't do
it alone - we need you. Whether you want to quit smoking yourself or help a loved one to bin the ci******es for good, we hope you can support each other and we (the Smokefree team) will lend a helping hand as much as possible.
*Please note: Specific individual advice will only be provided by private message and will become part of your patient file. Please do not share other people's private information without their consent. THE FIDDLY BITS (Comment guidelines)
We actively ask for participation and discussion on this page. We do ask that all comments remain respectful of others, don't stray too far off topic and, most of all, encourage and support others to quit smoking. Advertising, spam and any forms of abuse (swearing, personal attacks, name calling, offensive etc) will not be tolerated and will be removed. Where possible, we will contact the person who made the comment to let them know why it was removed and offer them to repost it following the guidelines. Whilst social media is active 24/7, we humans are not. Our team will moderate comments within normal working hours (Monday to Friday). We ask our community to flag any content they feel does not follow the guidelines set out above. Comments, links and content expressed within and on posts do not reflect those of Te Whatu Ora South Canterbury unless explicitly stated. For official comment please contact the Communication Manager on 6872395.
