Gippsland Tobacco and Healthy Lifestyle Team (GTAHLT)

• Reach:

  VIC

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Status:

  Current

Overview

The Gippsland Tobacco Action and Healthy Lifestyle Team (GTAHLT) is based at the Lakes Entrance Aboriginal Health Association in Lakes Entrance, Victoria (Vic). The team operates a services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people throughout the whole of Gippsland, from the Vic/New South Wales (NSW) border in the east, to Islands Drouin and Phillip in the west.

GTAHLT aims to encourage and assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Gippsland to choose to be tobacco free. This is done by providing:

• locally produced and culturally relevant social marketing resources, including video resources
• direct information on different products to help people quit smoking (such as nicotine replacement therapy)
• direct advice on ways to overcome the routine, social, and emotional aspects of smoking
• techniques and support to make quitting easier, through the No Butts Yarning Group Program
• GP referrals where necessary
• brochures and promotional items for extra information and encouragement
• education for health workers and other health professionals in tobacco cessation aids and techniques to use with their own clients.

For more information, please see the links below.

Abstract adapted from Gippsland Tobacco Action and Healthy Lifestyle Team (GTAHLT)

Contacts

Gippsland Tobacco Action and Healthy Lifestyle Team (GTAHLT)
26/18-26 Jemmeson Street
Lakes Entrance Vic 3909
Ph: (03) 5155 8465
Fax: (03) 5155 8349

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Links

• View information: Gippsland Tobacco and Healthy Lifestyle Team (GTAHLT)
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