Smoking Cessation Support Enhancement

Helping people quit smoking and vaping

AMSANT coordinates Smoking Cessation Support Enhancement in health services across the NT, through training, resources, reimbursement of NRT hosting a Community of Practice.

Training

To organise a one-hour face-to-face or videoconference training session at your health service, please contact Linda Cherop at quit@amsant.org.au.

View our 30 minute webinar about smoking cessation.

Consider these publicly available training courses and webinars in smoking cessation.

Pamphlets

These patient information pamphlets were updated in April 2025. If you would like to modify these pamphlets to include your organsiation’s branding, or have any feedback, please contact us at quit@amsant.org.au.

NRT reimbursement

Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services and NT Health Remote Primary Health Care clinics are eligible to be reimbursed for their orders of fast-acting NRT by contacting us at quit@amsant.org.au.

NT Tobacco Control Community of Practice

All people who are interested and working to improve smoking and vaping cessation in the NT are welcome to join our Community of Practice meetings and online forum by contacting us at quit@amsant.org.au.

Clinical guidelines

NACCHO/RACGP National Guide to preventive healthcare for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

The tobacco control CQI guide for health services in the NT.

Webinars & Online Training: Smoking and Vaping Cessation

NACCHO – Good Medicine Better Health: Quit Smoking

Access: NACCHO eLearning
Format: 3 interactive learning modules (approx. 30 mins each)
Topics:
- Module 1 – Supporting the Quit Smoking Journey
  - Harms of smoking
  - Benefits of quitting
Applying brief advice

Module 2 – Stop-Smoking Medicines
- Nicotine dependence & withdrawal
- Medicine options & other supports
Module 3 – Smoking and Pregnancy
- Harms during pregnancy
- Benefits of quitting while pregnant
- Medicine options for pregnant clients

Key Details:

Account required (no NACCHO membership needed)
Endorsed by National Association of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners (NAATSIHWP) and counts towards CPD hours

NACCHO-RACGP National Guide to preventive healthcare for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: Smoking and Vaping: Smoking and Vaping

Access: RACGP Webinar Series
Format:2-part video series (approx. 40 mins total)
Topics:
- Part 1
  - Harms of smoking
  - Public health approachesd
  - AAH (Ask, Advise, Help) brief advice model
  - NRT dependence, cessation medications
  - E-cigarettes: regulations & evidence
- Part 2: Case study
Details:
- PNo account needed
- Endorsed by NAATSIHWP (self-record CPD)

Quit Centre Online Modules

Access: Quit Centre Training
Format: 3 interactive learning modules (60–90 mins each)
Topics:
- Module 1 – Smoking Cessation Brief Advice
  - Health and social harms of smoking
  - 3-step brief advice model (Ask, Advise, Help)
  - Pharmacotherapy & drug interactions
- Module 2 – Vapes: Considerations for Health Professionals
  - Vape components & trends
  - Risks & harms
  - Therapeutic vapes, clinical guidelines & regulations
  - Vaping cessation approaches
- Module 3 – Supporting Pregnant Women
  - Smoking prevalence in pregnancy
  - Health impacts
  - Brief advice & behavioral interventions
  - Pharmacotherapy considerations
  - Responding to common scenarios and myths
Details:
- RACGP & ACRRM accredited and CPD hours
- Account required

Quit Webinar: GP Supervisors - supporting registrars to provide smoking cessation care

Access: Quit Webinar Recordings
Format: 2-part series (53 mins each) available as a video or podcast
Topics:
- Module 1 – Smoking Cessation Brief Advice
  - Brief advice (AAH)
  - Assessing nicotine dependence and appropriate pharmacotherapy
  - Communication techniques: motivational interviewing, working with resistant patients, psychoeducation
- Part 2: Case study
Details:
- No account needed

RACGP Webinar: Reducing Smoking & Vaping in Pregnancy

Access: RACGP Webinar
Format:1-hour video recording
Topics:
- Prevalence & risks of smoking and vaping in pregnancy
- Vaping legislation and clinical practice
- Brief advice (AAH) & communication techniques
- Evidence-based vaping and smoking cessation interventions including behavioral support and NRT
- NRT safety and dosage during pregnancy and while breastfeeding
- Case study
Details:
- No account needed

Get in touch

To talk about tackling Indigenous smoking activities or how the program can support your service or community to go smoke-free, contact the TIS team within AMSANT’s workforce and leadership support (WALS) unit. Contact button here