Anyone in our area who uses nicotine containing products. Nicotine containing products include cigarettes (including cigarettes you make yourself), E-cigarettes (ie. Vape pen, vapes, mods, hookah pens, or e-hookahs), cigars, cigarillos, pipe tobacco, smokeless/chewing tobacco (including snus or snuff) and tobacco water pipe.
Smoking tobacco continues to be a major contributing factor for adverse health outcomes. Our vision at the Family Health Team is to help our area to be a healthy, empowered rural community. The single, most effective action that you can do to improve your health is to quit smoking. The pharmacists at the Listowel-Wingham and Area Family Health Team will help you devise a plan to meet the goal of smoking cessation. Pharmacologic options to decrease nicotine cravings will be explored. Patients will meet with our pharmacists at regular intervals to track progress, help with suggestions for further lifestyle changes, and to provide nicotine replacement products.
In meeting with our pharmacists at regular intervals for progress tracking, you are held accountable for your smoking status. This accountability and counselling helps reduce your nicotine use.
With support and pharmacological aids, smoking cessation or nicotine cessation is possible!
Anyone interested can contact the Family Health Team reception desk to book an appointment, or can be referred to the program by their family doctor or nurse practitioner. However, referrals from a family doctor or nurse practitioner are not necessary.
