Multicultural resources
Calling the Quitline with Translating and Interpreting Service
Quit SA provides a wide range of services to the wider community, and seeks to assist the multicultural community on the issue of tobacco smoking.
Multicultural resources
A number of resources are available in multiple languages. These items can be downloaded below, or ordered by fax using the Quit resource order form.
Quit book - 23 page booklet with information on quitting and tips on staying quit. Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, Italian, Greek, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Quit because you can website contains many different resources in a range of different languages.
Passive Smoking brochure - 4 page booklet explainging why to avoid passive smoking.
Tumour poster - A3 poster displaying Every cigarette is doing you damage message in multiple languages.
NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service
A statewide service based in South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service and funded by NSW Health. It aims to facilitate the communication of quality information about health issues and health services to people of non-English speaking backgrounds. Their online publications include:
Chronic bronchitis, emphysema and airway narrowing (COPD) - A guide to coping with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - a term for conditions like chronic bronchitis, and emphysema.
I can already hear, kick and breathe in daddy's cigarette smoke - Reminder to parents of the effects of smoking on unborn babies.
Men who smoke - Myths and facts about smoking, including information for men on the health risks of tobacco and how to quit.
Myths about cigarette smoking - for women - Myths and facts about smoking, including information for women on the health risks of tobacco, and how to quit. Adapted with kind permission of The Cancer Council Western Australia.
No Smoking - How smoking increases the risk of complications with diabetes, including information about quitting.
Vietnamese
Products to help you quit smoking - Guide to products to help you quit smoking, including nicotine replacement therapy (patches, gum, lozenges, sublingual tablets and inhalers) and medication. Also includes other strategies to help you quit.
Quitting smoking - the first few days - Practical guide to quitting smoking, including strategies to deal with cravings and other temporary side effects of quitting.
Reasons to quit smoking - How smoking affects health, and the health benefits of quitting.
Smoking and pregnancy - A guide to the effects of tobacco smoke on unborn babies, including information on how to quit smoking.
Calling the Quitline - it's easy using the Translating and Interpreting Service
Callers with limited English can now benefit from talking to a Quitline adviser by using an interpreter. This service is free and uses a three-way telephone communication channel with an interpreter, Quitline adviser and the caller. Callers will be linked with an appropriate interpreter within 30 minutes.
Callers can access the interpreting service by ringing the Quitline 13 7848
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