
Smoking
This directory is designed to help you find resources on Smoking in Windsor-Essex. These listings were compiled by submissions from the community along with organizations that have supported the LGBTQ2S+ community in Windsor-Essex. If you feel there is an organization or business that should be listed, please submit the information on our submission form.
Resource Links
Dangers Of Tobacco (waytoquit.org)
Vaping (waytoquit.org)
Help Someone Quit (waytoquit.org)
One The Road To Quitting (Government of Canada)
Local Resource connections
CMHA HEALTHCARE
CMHA Healthcare
1400 Windsor Avenue
Windsor, Ontario, N8X 3L9
Phone: 519-971-0116
CMHA Health Centre offers high quality care to residents living in Windsor and Essex County. An interprofessional group of health care practitioners, including Family Physicians and Nurse Practitioners provide health care in an integrated, respectful and holistic environment. The focus of the health team is on disease management and prevention, rehabilitation, and health promotion.
SMOKE CESSATION BREATHE EASY GROUP
CMHA Healthcare
1400 Windsor Avenue
Windsor, Ontario, N8X 3L9
Breathe Easy is a 6 week smoking cessation program which offers support and education to adults who are either trying to cut down on the number of cigarettes smoked, and/or wish to quit smoking altogether. Topics covered include: the benefits of quitting, goal setting, identifying triggers, the effects of smoking on health, stress management and lifestyle options.
SMOKERS HELPLINE
Phone: 1-877-513-5333
Smokers’ Helpline helps you with the things you need to quit – the people, the plan, and the support that are proven to get you smoke-free for good.
STOP ON THE NET
The Smoking Treatment for Ontario Patients (STOP) Program is a province-wide initiative delivering smoking cessation treatment and counselling support to people who want to reduce/quit their tobacco use. These supports are available free of charge, through partnerships with community health care organizations. Importantly, STOP has been able to reach and successfully be implemented within vulnerable communities that face barriers in accessing care. The STOP Program is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health.
STOP PROGRAM
Windsor Essex County Health Unit
1005 Ouellette Avenue
Windsor, ON N9A 4J8
Phone: 519-258-2146 Ext.3100
WECHU holds group STOP workshops where eligible participants can attend one local session and receive five weeks of free nicotine replacement therapy ( nicotine patches) and smoking cessation information to help them in their quit attempt.
TALK TOBACCO
Phone: 1-833-998-8255
Are you First Nations, Inuit or Métis? Do you want to quit smoking or vaping commercial tobacco? Talk Tobacco is for you. Talk Tobacco provides culturally specific, free and confidential support and information about quitting smoking or vaping. Program services were created with input and guidance from First Nations, Inuit and Métis partners, community members and healthcare providers.
TELEHEALTH ONTARIO
Phone: 1-866-797-0000
Telehealth Ontario smoking cessation program Provides evidence-informed smoking cessation supports and information by phone and supports callers through follow-up calls where additional supports and coaching are required. Telehealth Ontario is a free and confidential service for health advice and information 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in more than 300 languages.