Smoking Cessation Partners
Smokers who wish to have professional smoking cessation services support that suits their needs, or any companies/organizations who would like to help their employees/ members to kick the smoking habit can contact the smoking cessation service providers as below.
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Integrated Smoking Cessation Hotline of the Department of Health
Quitline:1833 183 (Press 1)
Website:https://www.livetobaccofree.hk
- Provides counselling on smoking cessation by registered nurses during office hours
- Provides 24-hour smoking cessation information
- Instantly test for the degree of nicotine dependency
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Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Integrated Centre on Smoking Cessation
Hotline:1833 183 (Press 2) / 2332 8977
Website:http://icsc.tungwahcsd.org/
- Provides free and community based smoking cessation services. Offers integrated treatment with pharmacotherapy and counselling by multidisciplinary team in a tailor-made treatment plan according to individual needs
- Provides the local population with comprehensive and community-based smoking cessation services in Wanchai, Mong Kok, Kwun Tong, Cheung Sha Wan, Tsuen Wan, Shatin, Tuen Mun and Tseung Kwan O
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Hospital Authority's Smoking Counselling & Cessation Service
Smoking Counselling and Cessation Hotline of Hospital Authority:2300 7272
Integrated Smoking Cessation Hotline of Department of Health:1833 183 (After selecting language, press 2 for enquiry/ booking then press 7)
Website:www.ha.org.hk/goto/sccp
- Operates Smoking Counselling & Cessation Centres in every district
- Offers counselling and regular follow-ups based on tailor-made treatment plan and provides drug treatment if indicated
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Pok Oi Hospital Free Smoking Cessation Service using Traditional Chinese Medicine
Hotline:1833 183 (Press 4) / 2607 1222
Website:cms.pokoi.org.hk/service_05
- Service adopts Chinese medical acupuncture and auricular acupuncture plus professional smoking cessation counselling and follow-up calls
- Over 200 service locations throughout Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories
- Acupuncture treatment is safe and effective. Chinese Medicine Practitioner would give advice to the participants on recovering from the bad health caused by years of smoking in accordance with their health status
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United Christian Nethersole Community Health Service
Hotline:3156 9012 / 2334 3019
Website:www.ucn.org.hk/?c=smoke_cessation
- Provides free smoking cessation services for ethnic minority groups and new immigrants
- Addresses the special needs in particular the language and cultural difference of ethnic minority groups.
- Promotes Smoke-free culture in Hong Kong to ethnic minority groups and new immigrants
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Smoking Cessation Program in Workplace by The Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon
Hotline:2272 9890
Website:www.scpw.hk
- Provides smoking cessation outreach services: includes helping corporate to establish smoke-free workplace, set up smoke-free internal policy, providing educational activities to smokers and non-smokers and providing counselling services to smokers
- Encourages and supports employees to quit smoking
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HKU Youth Quitline
Hotline:2855 9557 / 5111 4333 (WhatsApp available)
Website:www.nursing.hku.hk/yquit/
- Targets youth smokers aged 25 or below
- Provides free smoking cessation quitline service to youth smokers via peer smoking cessation counsellors
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“HKU Smokefree Old Buddy” Research Project, School of Nursing, the University of Hong Kong
Hotline:6826 4574
Website:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561250319996
- Targeted smokers aged 60 years old and above
- Free personalized smoking cessation support: Brief advice, referral service, 3-month smoking cessation messages and chat-based support, maximum HK$5,000 incentive for validated smoking abstinence (Randomized allocation)
- Biochemically nicotine dependency test and cognitive assessment
- 3 telephone follow-ups at 3, 6 and 12 months and coupons for participation