Our services

• Smokefree pregnancy services to Canterbury families
• Smokefree education for New Zealand midwives

Smokechange pregnancy services to Canterbury families is free personalised support to be smokefree in pregnancy. It is for pregnant women and their partners and is offered to people of all cultures and stages of readiness, in their homes, by phone, email and text.

• Our referrers refer to us because they trust in our service. They see first-hand, the extensive detrimental impact to pregnancies from exposure to tobacco, and they see the ripple effect of devastating health concequences for babies and their families.
• Our participants work with us because they find us positive and respectful and the programme works to support their change.

Smokefree education for New Zealand midwives is national education to midwives so that they can provide effective support for smoking cessation for pregnant women, and to promote the uptake of smoking cessation programmes by pregnant women.

• Our midwives attend our training because they also trust in our education. They, like our referrers (who are predomantly midwives) see first-hand, the extensive detrimental impact to pregnancies from exposure to tobacco, and they see the ripple effect of devastating health concequences for babies and their families.
• Our link team  are midwives who link our programme to midwife colleagues and  provide peer education. They are passionate about providing their colleagues with the facts, principles and tools to have positive and effective conversations with women about the importance of a smokefree start to life for their baby.

Our services are funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Health.