Additional Tools and Resources

Welcome – on this page you’ll find some additional resources. Please select one of the options below.

• Message from Your Motoring to Wellness Committee 
• Frequently Asked Questions about Participation in KickButts Program
• Understanding the Smoke Free Ontario Act
• More smoking cessation resources in your area

General Motors of Canada Limited (GMCL) and the CAW are committed to providing a comprehensive workplace wellness program that will help improve the health and wellbeing of GMCL employees, retirees and their families.  In support of that goal, we are pleased to offer this website to assist those who wish to quit smoking.  It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  We hope that you find the program and interactive tools useful in your journey to become tabacco-free.

GMCL/CAW Health and Wellness Program committees

There is no cost to participate in the KickButts program.

Will I be eligible for benefit coverage for nicotine replacement therapy smoking cessation products through my drug plan?

You may be eligible for coverage for physicians perscribed nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products (including gum, patch or inhaler) through your General Motors Drug Plan by entering the GMCL/CAW Motoring to Wellness 2008 Quit Smoking Challege. Registration for this Quit Smoking Challenge closes September 30, 2008. Challenge details and registration are available at www.motoringtowellness.com or in your September 2008 Motoring to Wellness newsletter. The 2008 Quit Smoking Challenge is brought to you through a partnership with General Motors of Canada Limited, Green Shield Canada and Health Canada.

Understanding the Smoke Free Ontario Act and the May 31 Smoking Ban

• Ontario - Ministry of Health Promotion: www.mhp.gov.on.ca
• Canadian Council for Tobacco Control: www.cctc.ca
• Ontario campaign against tobacco www.ocat.org

Health Departments/Units

Supporting the GMCL/CAW Health and Wellness Program

• Durham Region Health Department  www.region.durham.on.ca or http://www.region.durham.on.ca/health.asp?nr=/departments/health/idt/index.htm&nav=b&setFooter=/includes/health/idtFooter.txt
• Niagara Regional Public Health Department  www.regional.niagara.on.ca or http://www.regional.niagara.on.ca/living/health_wellness/smokefree/
• Oxford County Public Health and Emergency Services  www.county.oxford.on.ca/healthservices or http://www.county.oxford.on.ca/site/1810/default.aspx
• Windsor - Essex Health Unit www.wechealthunit.org or http://www.wechealthunit.org/A-Z_Topics/WECHU/tobacco/ or http://www.quitsmokenow.org/

Windsor-Essex County Health Unit's Comprehensive Tobacco Website: www.quitsmokenow.org

GM Kickbutts

Health Canada: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/tobac-tabac/index_e.html

Canadian Lung Association: www.lung.ca

Canadian Cancer Society (Smokers' Helpline):

• ON, SK, NS, MB, NB: 1 877 513-5333
• NL: 1 800 363-5864
• PE: 1 888 818-6300
• AB: 1 866 332-2322

For more tools and resources for yourself or someone you know, please select your location from the list below.

• Across Canada
• Alberta
• British Columbia
• Manitoba
• New Brunswick
• Newfoundland
• Northwest Territories
• Nova Scotia
• Nunavut
• Ontario
• PEI
• Quebec
• Saskatchewan
• Yukon

• Health Canada Online Smoking Cessation Guide: www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/tobacco/quitting/
• Le tabagisme au Canada durant les 16 dernieres annees: www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/rendez-vous/fumer.htm
  
• Canadian Lung Association Get On Track Program: www.on.lung.ca/getontrack/getontrack.html
• Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada:www.heartandstroke.ca
• (CCTC) Canadian Council for Tobacco Control  (formerly, the Canadian Council on Smoking and Health), National Clearinghouse on Tobacco and Health Program www.ncth.ca/NCTH_new.nsf
  
• “Quit4Life” for teens from Canadian government & voluntary sponsors, in English and French www.quit4life.com/
  
• Canadian Cancer Society: www.cancer.ca/ccs/internet/standard/0,3182,3172_368202_260464_langId-en,00.html
• “Being Free: A tribe called Quit” online smoking cessation program by Aboriginal Youth Network (AYN): www.ayn.ca/quit/en/c5_1_being_free.asp
• “Pregnets” addressing the issue of smoking among pregnant and postpartum women in Ontario: http://www.pregnets.org/

• Alberta Lung Association: (780) 407-6819
• Nechi Institute, for aboriginal adults and adolescents living in urban settings: (780) 458-1884

• Airspace Action on Smoking and Health http://airspace.bc.ca/
• The Lung Association, British Columbia: http://bc.quitnet.com/
• BC Doctors' Stop-Smoking Program: http://www.bcdssp.com/
• Tobacco Facts, British Columbia: http://www.tobaccofacts.org/

• Airspace Action on Smoking and Health http://airspace.bc.ca/
• Manitoba Lung Association: (204) 774-5501
• Women’s Health Centre, focusing on smoking cessation for women: (204) 947-1517

• Lung Association: Freedom from Smoking Group Course: (506)455-8961

• Clinical Tobacco Intervention (CTI) Counselling Program: (709) 753-0079

• Canadian Cancer Society, Alberta and Northwest Territories Division: (403) 228-4487

• Family Health and Wellness, Stop Smoking Information: http://www.balmoralfarm.ns.ca/smoking.html
• Office of Health Promotion, Tobacco Control Unit: http://www.balmoralfarm.ns.ca/smoking.html

• Government of Nunavut Smokers’ Helpline: 1-866-877-3845

• The Lung Association, Ontario, online resource for facts, figures and other reasons to never smoke: http://www.on.lung.ca/nosmoking/
• Toronto Public Health: http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/health/quit_smoking.htm
• Region of Peel Quit Smoking Program: http://www.region.peel.on.ca/health/quitsmoking/
• University of Toronto Health Service, Stop Smoking: http://www.utoronto.ca/health/healthtips/smkrprfl/smkrprfl.htm

• TPEI Lung Association: Individualized Smoking Cessation Self-Help Kit: (902) 892-5957

• Jeunes sans fumer: (514) 849-3804
• Clinique d’aide aux fumeurs de l’Hôpital Laval: (418) 656-4594
• Défi J'arrête, j'y gagne! http://defitabac.qc.ca
• The Lung Association, Québec, smoking cessation resources: http://www.pq.lung.ca/sections/tabagisme/en/index.php
• Tabagism, Direction de santé publique de Montréal : http://www.santepub-mtl.qc.ca/tabagie/methode/gettingready.html

• Saskatchewan Health, Quitting Smoking: http://www.health.gov.sk.ca/rr_smoking.html
• Saskatchewan Lung Association: http://www.sk.lung.ca/content.cfm?edit_realword=cessation

• Canadian Cancer Society, British Columbia and Yukon Division: (604) 872-4400