FREE WEBINAR: Helping people quit smoking and vaping - practical, time-efficient strategies that work in real primary care.
This session focuses on simple, high-impact techniques clinicians can use in busy consultations: how to raise smoking or vaping when clinically relevant, how to use varenicline and NRT effectively, how to integrate HIP/HC/kaiāwhina support, how safe is Vape-to-Quit and who should prescribe vapes. Emphasis is on brief, motivational conversations, practical scripts, and system changes that make quitting support easier for clinicians and patients alike.
As always, we will answer as many questions as possible.
Presenter
John McMenamin
John McMenamin is a GP and a clinical lead for Smoking Cessation in New Zealand. He has been involved in Smoking and Vaping Cessation guidelines and worked with primary care, PHOs, and Stop Smoking Services to improve quitting support. His work focuses on practical, evidence-based strategies that fit within real-world clinical workflows, with a special interest in brief interventions, varenicline prescribing, and integrating HIPs/health coaches into cessation pathways.
Presenter
Chris Bullen
Chris is Professor of Public Health at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland. He is a public health physician, with a background in primary care. Over the past 20 years he has led research focused on finding more effective quit smoking interventions, including the world’s first randomised controlled trial of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid. He has been a co-author on the Cochrane reviews on e-cigarettes for smoking cessation, on NZ Smoking Cessation Guidelines, and the HealthNZ Vaping Cessation Guidance for supporting people who want to quit vaping.
