10000LivesCQ uses a Senior Project Officer to promote available support services, including Quitline, to increase smoking cessation in CQ. It works as a catalyst to bring all smoking cessation activities together, and advocates for increasing smoking cessation in partnership with multiple stakeholders from government, non-government and community.
10000 Lives CQ Smoking Cessation Project
Initiative Type
Education and Training
Status
Deliver
Added
11 February 2020
Last updated
24 July 2020
Summary
Key dates
Sep 2017
Implementation sites
Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service
Partnerships
Quitline, PHN’s, Community, Preventative Health Branch, University of Queensland Public Health Unit.
Aim
To reduce the rate of smoking in Central Queensland (CQ) from 17% to 9.5% by 2030.
Benefits
- Create change in the attitudes towards smoking in CQ.
- Increase conversations about smoking by healthcare professionals
- A sustainable taskforce to ensure smoking cessation remains on the agenda.
- Improves referral pathways to support individuals, workplaces and human services.
- Results in fewer smoking related deaths in CQ.
Background
10,000 Lives Smoking Cessation Project launched by Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CQHHS) in November 2017 aims to reduce smoking in Central Queensland from 16.7 per cent to 9.5 per cent by 2030; that’s 20,000 fewer smokers, in effect saving 10,000 lives from premature death.