A new campaign from Quit Centre is encouraging GPs to access its tools and resources to help their patients quit smoking.

“We know from research that the likelihood of quitting smoking can more than double when a patient is surrounded by support from health professionals and smoking cessation counsellors, along with clinically appropriate pharmacotherapy,” says Emma Dean, acting Quit director.

Now, we’ve launched a new campaign – called Together we can make a difference – encouraging GPs to provide a simple intervention that can increase the likelihood their patients will succeed at quitting smoking.

The goal is to motivate GPs to access Quit Centre’s practical and helpful resources to support their patients who smoke to quit.

Ms Dean says: “A survey of more than 1000 GPs and pharmacists showed that 89% agree that smoking should be addressed as a clinical priority. Quit Centre provides the tools to facilitate this. Developed by health professionals for health professionals, Quit Centre is a federally funded one-stop-shop for the tools, training and resources for providing best practice smoking cessation care.”

GPs can find all the information and resources they need to support their patients who smoke to quit.