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2008 New Zealand Tobacco Use Survey: Quitting Results

Date of publication (online): November 2009

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New Zealand Tobacco Use Survey 2008: Quitting results, focussing on the quitting behaviour of current smokers, is the second report based on the New Zealand Tobacco Use Survey 2008 (NZTUS 2008) data.

The first report, Tobacco Trends 2008: A brief update of tobacco use in New Zealand was released in June 2009.

This report presents data directly related to smokers’ history of quitting smoking, their reasons for quitting, the products, services and advice they’ve used, and their awareness and knowledge of the different health effects of nicotine and tobacco.

Baseline data for monitoring the implementation of the New Zealand Smoking Cessation Guidelines are presented in this report. The data can also be used to monitor progress towards one of the six Health Targets, Better help for smokers to quit, that came into effect on 1 July 2009.

Online data tables include NZTUS 2008 Quitting results further to those in the report.


Related information


Methodology report for the 2008 New Zealand Tobacco Use Survey
Tobacco Trends 2008: A brief update of tobacco use in New Zealand
Monitoring Tobacco Use in New Zealand: A Technical Report on Defining Smoking Status and Estimates of Smoking Prevalence
The New Zealand Health Monitor: Updated strategic plan
Presenting Ethnicity: Comparing prioritised and total response ethnicity in descriptive analyses of New Zealand Health Monitor surveys
New Zealand Tobacco Survery
Tobacco Trends 2006: Monitoring Tobacco use in New Zealand
New Zealand Tobacco Use Survey 2006
National Drug Policy New Zealand (www.ndp.govt.nz)
MoH Tobacco Pages
The Quit Group (www.quit.org.nz)
ITC Project: A study to improve tobacco control (www.uow.otago.ac.nz)
Data access - Health and disability intelligence
Health Target: Better help for smokers to quit
Information on stop smoking initiatives and cessation providers
Smoking cessation guidelines

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Date of publication: November 2009

ISBN number:978-0-478-33923-9 (online)

HP number: 4963

Citation: Ministry of Health. 2009. New Zealand Tobacco Use Survey 2008: Quitting results. Wellington: Ministry of Health.


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