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Quit Smoking Resources

Quitting smoking is one of the most important things you can do for your health! You can add years to your life and greatly lower your risk of tobacco-related illness. Here are resources for free, confidential support and information about quitting. 

  • Smokers’ Helpline provides free, confidential support and information online and through text messages.
  • Health811 (formerly Health Connect Ontario) provides free, confidential support and information about mental health and addictions. Call 811, or, Toll Free: 1-866-797-0007.
  • OHIP+ provides help to quit smoking if you are aged 24 and under and have no private insurance.

If you are ready to quit, you do not have to do it alone. Below are programs that can help you quit. 

Ontario Drug Benefit Pharmacist Support
  • Free for Ontario Drug Benefit recipients
  • Some local pharmacies partner with SWPH to provide free nicotine replacement therapy such as patches and gum along with counselling to Ontario Drug Benefit recipients   

Oxford County

St. Thomas

Elgin County

Middlesex-London

  • Free to Ontario residents aged 18+
  • An online research program designed to support individuals 18 years of age and older​ in an attempt to quit smoking
  • Eligible participants are mailed 10 weeks of the patch and gum

Learn more about STOP on the Net

  • For Ontarians who do not have a health care provider
  • This Ottawa-based program is designed for people who want to quit smoking but are not enrolled with a health care provider or cannot easily access smoking cessation support
  • Eligible participants will receive a consultation, follow-up support, and nicotine replacement therapy vouchers

Learn more about this program

Talk Tobacco

  • Free to Indigenous populations
  • Talk Tobacco provides free Indigenous quit smoking and vaping support
  • Call 1-888-645-5405 and leave your contact information on the voicemail; a Nicotine Addiction Specialist will get back to you 

Learn more about this programs

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Southwestern Public Health (8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday - Friday)

St. Thomas Site
(Administrative office)
1230 Talbot Street
St. Thomas, ON N5P 1G9

Woodstock Site
410 Buller Street
Woodstock, ON N4S 4N2

Call us toll free: 1-800-922-0096
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