Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux des Laurentides

Services to help quit smoking and vaping

You want to reduce or quit smoking or vaping? 

Free services are available to help you.

In person

• Quit Smoking centres can offer you free information and support to teach you how to quit smoking or vaping while respecting your pace. They can also provide nicotine-based treatment prescriptions, if needed. 
• You can join individual or group meetings with a specially trained nurse by calling: 1-844-440-AIDE (2433).
• New in the Laurentians: Pregnant women program Parce que je compte (Because I matter).
  For more information, consult theBrochure (in French only).

Online

• VisitI Quit Now  for more ideas, simple exercises, for professional support, or to create your account and quit at our own pace.

By phone

• Call ⇒ 1-888-jarrete (1-888-527-7383)
• All services are provided by a trained counsellor
• Monday to Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. 
• Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. 

By SMS - (SMAT) Stop smoking text messaging services

• Quitting tips, support and information via text messaging on your cell phone, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• You can subscribe by texting SMAT at 20202, Facebook, or by visiting the SMAT website.

Medication to quit smoking

• Nicotine-based products and stop-smoking medications are effective and can help you succeed in quitting.
• If prescribed, many nicotine-based products (patches, gums and lozenges) are covered by prescription drug insurance for up to 12 weeks, under certain conditions.
• For more information, or if you want a prescription, please talk with your healthcare professional (doctor, pharmacist, nurse, respiratory therapist), or call your Quit Smoking centre at 1-844-440-AIDE (4233).
• For more information about costs covered by prescription drug insurance, please consult this document. 

Guides and documentation for quitting

• On the road to quitting: Guide to becoming a non–smoker
• On the Road to Quitting: Guide to becoming a non–smoker for young adults
• Your guide to quit smoking from the Association pulmonaire du Québec (in French only)
• Quit Smoking documentation from the Association pulmonaire du Québec
• How to quit smoking from the Canadian Lung Association

Quit to Win! Challenge and other campaigns

Quit to Win! Challenge is a campaign that invites smokers to step up and stop smoking for six weeks during the months of February and March. It distributes free tools, an online profile, support via email and social medias and prizes to win to help motivate you.

For more details or to sign up, visit Quit to Win! Challenge

Tobacco Free Quebec : Other  Campaigns to prevent smoking and vaping. 

Teenagers and young adults

 

Do you know the truth about what tobacco and vaping can do to your health? 

See the consequences here ⇓

• What does it do to me?
• Consider the Consequences of Vaping
• Teen vaping and nicotine
• Learn more about the downside of vaping with EPAV ⇓

            ⇔  EPAV Média sur ,   ou 

Did you know that tobacco and vaping can endanger the environment?

• Your addiction has consequences 
• Does vaping cause global warming? (in French only)
• Vaping and its environmental impact 

You smoke or you vape... a little, a lot, too much?

Would you like to talk about it and/or stop altogether?

There are resources available to help you! 

• You can call  ⇒1-844-440-2433 to schedule an in-person meeting with a nurse
• Free tools to help you quit ⇓ 

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Smoke-free environment

Second-hand smoke can increase your risk of suffering from lung cancer, respiratory diseases and cardiovascular disease. Pregnant women and children are particularly vulnerable to it. Turn your house and your car into smoke-free environments.

For more information, go to:

• Smoke-Free Family
• Little Pink Lungs campaign
• Make Your Home and Car Smoke-free 

Tools and guides for tenants and homeowners to help them in turning their home into a smoke-free environment and support them in asserting their rights.

Living in a smoke-free environment in Quebec (in French only)

Anti-Smoking Law - complaints

The main goal of the Tobacco Control Act is to prevent the initiation of youth into the use of tobacco and e-cigarettes, to protect people from the dangers of second-hand smoke and to encourage quitting smoking. 

Main amendments to the act: Tobacco Control Act.

For more information about the Act or to make a complaint ⇓ 

• Call (information and complaints) ⇒ 1-877-416-8222 (toll-free), from Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon and from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m.
• Email (comments and suggestions) ⇒ loi-tabac@msss.gouv.qc.ca

Address
Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux
Direction générale de la coordination réseau et ministérielle
Direction de l'inspection et des enquêtes
3000, avenue Saint-Jean-Baptiste, 1^er étage
Québec (Québec) G2E 6J5

For information about offences and fines under the anti-smoking policy of the Tobacco Control Act, CLICK HERE.

Other resources

• Smoking, vaping and tobacco | Government of Canada
• Tobacco | Government of Canada
• Vaping-associated lung illness | Government of Canada
• Outbreak of Lung Injury Associated with the Use of E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Products |CDC
• Tobacco and electronic cigarette during pregnancy | INSPQ
• Tobacco control | Canadian Cancer Society
• Info-tabac (in French only)
• Québec sans tabac (in French only)
• Quit Smoking | Association pulmonaire du Québec