Smoke and Vape-Free
We share your concerns about the rising uptake of e-cigarettes, commonly known as vaping. We’re committed to supporting our community, services, and clubs to create smoke- and vape-free spaces for everyone to play, work, and live.
Supporting services, clubs, schools and more
We value people living, working, attending appointments and socialising in healthy, smoke-free and vape-free environments.
As part of our work, we have a Smoke-free Action Plan with the following objectives:
- Create and embed a smoke-free environment
- Reduce employee smoking rates
- Support patients to cease smoking.
Our Health Promotion team works with community clubs, associations, services, schools, and groups to create smoke and vape-free environments using various frameworks, including:
- Achievement Program’s tobacco, alcohol and other drugs health area for early years and schools
- Quit’s ‘Seeing Through the Haze’ school curriculum resource
- Healthy Sports Clubs’ Smoke-free health area.
Resources for multicultural communities
Quit is a trusted source of information for people who smoke or vape and has resources to help Arabic-speaking, Mandarin-speaking, and Vietnamese-speaking communities.
Quit has in-language posters for English, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Arabic-speaking people. Additional downloadable resources are available; you must refine your search in the dropdown tabs by language.
Quitline counsellors can speak with you in your language via an interpreter. Call and leave a message, and a Quitline counsellor will ring you back together with an interpreter:
- For Arabic call 03 8583 2905
- For Mandarin call 03 8583 2903
- For Vietnamese call 03 8583 2906.
You can also start a chat with Quitline in your language using:
- webchat at quit.org.au
- WhatsApp+61 385 832 920
- Facebook Messenger @quitvic
- or SMS 0482 090 634.
You can also make a referral to Quit by filling out a Quitline referral form, completing the PDF, and faxing it to 1800 931 739.
Inspiring local stories
Supporting Quit in producing local stories that raise vaping awareness. Watch and listen to these inspiring local videos.
Year 11 students from Lyndhurst Secondary College created a video to reassure peers that support is available and that they’re not alone in their quitting journey.
Dr. Roseby, a Paediatric Respiratory Physician here at Monash Health, is deeply concerned about vaping’s long-term effects on children’s lung and airway health.
Kayla, an Environmental Health Officer for Casey, has noticed rising vaping among local youth and urges government collaboration to mitigate vaping harms to health.
Local partnerships and collaborations
South-east Vaping Prevention Working Group
We partner with local councils: Cardinia Shire Council, the City of Casey, and the City of Greater Dandenong. We’ve developed an Understanding Vaping webinar and continue working together to reduce tobacco-related harm.
Contact healthpromotion@monashhealth.org for more information.
Schools’ Health and Wellbeing Community of Practice
We host a regular health and wellbeing focussed Community of Practice for schools, focussing on a broad range of topics such as reducing vaping and smoking among students.
Visit the Healthy Schools page for more information.
Healthy Sports Clubs Network
We facilitate a quarterly health and wellbeing focussed Network for local sports clubs to share tips and collaborate on a range of health topics, including healthy eating, smoking, physical activity and inclusion.
Visit the Healthy Sports Clubs page for more information.
Oromo Community Radio
Listen to our fortnightly Oromo Community Health and Wellbeing Radio show. The radio show provides information on various health and wellbeing topics, including smoking and vaping information.
Tune in to find out more.
Services we offer at Monash Health
We offer the following services at Monash Health:
- Free nicotine replacement therapy for inpatients wanting to quit smoking
- Enviropoles bins for disposal of butt litter before visiting our site.
We have a range of resources to quit smoking/vaping or for withdrawal. To learn more, see the ‘Resources’ section below.
Useful resources
Resources
- Quit Victoria: Support quitting smoking and vaping
- ‘Get the facts on vaping’: Quit Victoria’s new online information hub for parents and adults
- ‘Seeing Through the Haze’ school resource: Quit Victoria
- Vaping and E-Cigarette Prevention toolkit for schools: Peninsula Health
- ‘No Smoking or Vaping’ signage and resources: Victorian Department of Health (includes free metal A3 signs for schools and early childhood services)
- Tobacco in Australia: Cancer Council Victoria’s comprehensive review covers major smoking and health issues in Australia, with up-to-date research. E-cigarette research is in Chapter 18
- Making Pregnancy Safer and Quit4 Baby Safer Baby – Working Together to Reduce Stillbirth with English, translated, culturally adapted and Indigenous resources
- Australia’s 2024 Vaping Regulation Reforms
- Cost of smoking: How much does smoking cost you
- Monash Health patient resources to quit smoking/vaping or for withdrawal:
Videos
- Understanding vaping webinar: Monash Health.
- See through the haze campaign (version 1): Quit Victoria.
- Year 10 Media students from Mt Clear College: Supported by Ballarat Community Health
- JBA (Just.Breathe.Air): Safer Cities ‘Youth Vaping’: Supported by City of Casey.
- Teens Talk Vaping short film: Part of a research project funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Contact us
If your club, association, service, or community group would like help with smoke/vape-free environments, contact us at healthpromotion@monashhealth.org