Aukati Kai Paipa – Smoking Cessation

• To provide quality training, support and advice to kaimahi from the 29 Aukati Kaipaipa (AKP) providers around the motu;
• The Te Hotu Manawa Maori training is accessible to all AKP smoking cessation kaimahi (workers) who support whanau to quit using a number of approaches: motivational interviewing, cognitive behaviour therapy and the use of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (gum and patches);
• The AKP programme was designed to be delivered by Māori for Maori and is delivered to whanau as an intensive programme for between 8 – 12 weeks.

For further information contact Moana Tane 09 638 5807 or Des Minnell 09 638 5805

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The National Tobacco Control Hui
Helping smokers quit will be held  25 – 27 June 2008, at Te Papa Museum. 

Please click on the conference website to register your attendance:
http://ntcc.manaakisolutions.co.nz/

Conference timetable

The conference will start with a powhiri in the afternoon followed by a cocktail evening, with two inspirational speakers and an opening address by Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Public Health Advisor, Ministry of Health. The conference will be open for the two hours prior to this for early registrations.

The first full day of the conference will begin at 7:30 am with a breakfast session and will end at 5pm. The conference dinner will be on the evening of the first day, Thursday June 26th, 2008. The second day will begin at 9am, and finish at 2:30 pm to enable people to link with outgoing transport.

Conference sessions and themes

The theme National Tobacco Control Hui: helping smokers quit will flow through to the conference sessions, which will contain scientific and practical approaches. There will be an emphasis on encouraging workforce and communities to work together.

A number of workshop sessions will be offered to ensure participants have time to thoroughly discuss and debate topics.

Plenary sessions will be followed by parallel sessions that will support and expand on the issues discussed at the plenary.

The plenary sessions may encompass the following topics:
• Minimising your smoking career - the benefits of quitting early
• Prefessionalisation of the tobacco control & cessation workforce
• Pharmacotherapies - includes debunking myths about NRT
• Primary health - connecting with others in tobacco control and smoking cessation
The themes for the master classes and workshops will lead on from the plenary sessions and include the following issues:

• Getting the new Guidelines into practice
• Workforce Development For:
• Cessation Practitioners/Specialists
• Aukati Kaipaipa
• Primary care, allied health and community providers
• District Health Boards – Public Health Units, Tobacco Control
• Effective Smoking Cessation Programmes (brief intervention to intensive support):
• Aukati Kaipaipa 
• Marae based interventions 
• Iwi providers 
• Cessation Clinics
• Primary Health Organisations (including AKP)
• Hospital Based Smoking Cessation
• Workplace Smoking Cessation
• Advocacy and Cessation Policy Support
• Specific Audiences/Clients for Cessation
• Pregnant women
• Rangatahi youth
• Mental Health Service Users
• Māori communities
• Pacific Islands communities
• Asian communities
• Alcohol and Drug services users
• Research into Cessation treatments
• New approaches to cessation
• New medications
• Auahi Kore – Tupeka Kore
• Māori Leadership – determining the future of your communities
• Effective social marketing in your community
• Forum: our vision for the future, where to from here?
• Samples of best practice 

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