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To speak to someone about quitting smoking, please phone the Quitline on 011 720 3145 or email quit@iafrica.com

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 Also contact us via WhatsApp on 063 828 2909

 

Why Quit
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Improve your health
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Quitting smoking at any age will help to improve your health.

Once you stop smoking:

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  • you will reduce your chances of strokes, cancer and heart disease

  • your fitness will improve

  • you will increase your chances of living longer and spending quality time with your family and friends

  • you won’t be exposing your family to dangerous second-hand smoke

Smoking harms those around you
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Second-hand smoke is not safer. When you smoke around family and friends, they smoke too.

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If you smoke at work, home, in the car , the people with you are with are breathing in your cigarette smoke. This is called second-hand smoke or passive smoking.

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No amount of passive or second-hand smoke is safe.

 

Babies and young children breathe faster than adults, so they take in more smoke than adults, and their developing organs suffer more harm. 

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Smoking around children increases their risk of:

  • chest infections, coughs and colds, ear infections and hearing problems

  • asthma

  • problems with learning and behaviour caused by sickness and missing school.

  • heart and lung disease when they grow up

 

 

When you QUIT smoking you protect those around you!

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