Quitting smoking

Learn why quitting smoking is the best thing you can do to improve your health:

Thinking about quitting? We can help:

• View our interactive module for tips to quit smoking (or view the plain-text version)
• Speak to a member of your healthcare team
• Visit the Patient Education and Research Learning Centre (PEARL) – Odette Cancer centre
• Visit SmokersHelpline.ca for more information

Resources:

• Why you should tell your doctor if you smoke
• Surprising ways smoking affects your body (and your family's bodies, too)
• Got surgery coming up? Reasons why it's a good idea to quit smoking now
• How to support a loved one who smokes (and may or may not want to quit)
• The truth about hookah and your health

Are you looking for more support?

To get telephone-based smoking cessation support and health-care information and advice, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, call Telehealth Ontario toll-free at 1-866-797-0000 or toll-free TTY at 1-866-797-0007.