Presented by:

Loma-Linda Tasi

Whitireia New Zealand

And

Eseta Finau, Sipaia Kupa & Abel Smith

Pacific Nurses Section (NZNO)

HOW PACIFIC NURSES CAN HELP PACIFIC PEOPLE TO QUIT

SMOKING?

BACHELOR OF NURSING PACIFIC

• Pacific Heritage• Pacific Health• Pacific Leadership (Nursing)• Treaty of Waitangi• Nursing Knowledge• Therapeutic Communications• Bioscience • Applied Bio-Nursing• Nursing Practice• Reflective Practice • Research

ACHIEVING THE VISION

SMOKEFREE/AUAHI KORE AOTEAROA NZ 2025

“ Lets have doubled the quit rate, even more for Maori and Pacific” Ben Youdan, ASH NZ 2012

To get smoking rates under 5% for all New Zealanders we need:

- Nearly half a million fewer smokers

- 1 in 4 need to be Maori (125,000)

- 1 in 10 need to be Pasifika (35,000)

PACIFIC PEOPLE AND TOBACCO CONTROL INTERVENTIONS

Figure 1. Support for key tobacco control interventions by Pacific peoples and European/Other smokers in New Zealand

"High support for a tobacco endgame by Pacific peoples who smoke: national survey data." Wilson, N., R. Edwards, et al. (2010). New Zealand Medical Journal 123(1316).

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