Canberra's smokers are being urged to join a national campaign to quit the coffin nails at the end of month.
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The campaign, run by the Lung Foundation, aims to help people around Australia quit smoking, and the ACT branch of the Pharmacy Guild is getting behind it.
Some 290 pharmacists across Canberra have recently completed training in "smoking cessation counselling" with University of New South Wales tobacco treatment specialist Associate Professor Colin Mendelsohn and Cancer Council ACT.
ACT Guild branch president Amanda Galbraith said pharmacists could help people develop a personalised quitting plan, including 'pharmacotherapy' - or products designed to ease withdrawal symptoms during the quitting process.
Smokers who sign up for the foundation's QUIT4october campaign will start the 31-day program on October 1.