Jump to full article: Halifax (NS) Chronicle Herald (ca), 2010-09-01
Author: JOHN McPHEE Health Reporter
Intro: Nova Scotia provides funding for smoking-cessation programs, a provincial spokesman said Tuesday.
Steve Machat, manager of tobacco control, was responding to an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association journal. The association said only Quebec provides full funding for cessation programs, while Prince Edward Island and the Yukon reimburse for at least one smoking-cessation product each.
But Machat said Nova Scotia has set aside $1.3 million annually for the past eight years for group counselling programs. Participants can get no-cost nicotine replacement therapies, such as the patch and chewing gum.
The programs are available in each of the province's nine health districts.
Machat commended the medical association for urging governments to help people quit smoking.
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