Tobacco smoking is related with the socio-economic disadvantage of indigenous population and they also suffer from psychological distress and depression. This is another most important reason for the higher rate of smoking in Indigenous people. The higher rate of smoking in indigenous people has not received much attention despite the link with mortality and morbidity. The tobacco control in indigenous people has been characterized by minimal formal evaluation of the interventions and very limited program delivery. Most of the investigations have focused on the brief intervention or the community based approaches. There has been very limited or no evaluation of culturally appropriate quit smoking program in Australia. The Center for Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control (CEITC) has shown some interest in smoking cessation programs for the indigenous Australians. Some group programs were also arranged that showed some positive results in mainstream population but they were not focused on the indigenous smoking at all. A recent study in UK found that group treatment is more useful than of individual treatment. The result of group treatment is 30% whereas the result of individual treatment is only 19%. To develop a proper cessation program for indigenous smoking it is quite important to understand the cultural, political and historical aspects of indigenous smoking. Most of the organizations arranged quit smoking campaign failed to understand it and that is the reason the campaigns did not seem to be effective.
Give up the Smokes (GUTS) is a culturally suitable intensive ‘stop smoking’ program which is especially designed for the indigenous smokers and it was developed by Galambila Aboriginal Medical Service and MNCDGP. The concept of the program was adopted for QUIT for CATS which was developed by the working party which consists of the first author of it who was a general practitioner and director of QUIT for CATS program. The Aboriginal Community Controlled Medical Service or ACCMS and AHWs were directly or indirectly involved in every stage of the development of the program as per the recommendations of CEITC. There were numerous researches involved in the program and ACCMS and AHWs helped a lot to make the researches easier. The development of the ‘Give up the Smokes’ program was funded by the Alliance of NSW Divisions and Cancer Institute NSW.
吸烟是与土著人口相关的社会和经济劣势，他们也遭受心理困扰和抑郁症。这是对土著居民吸烟率较高的另一个重要原因。在土著人的吸烟率高一直没有得到足够的重视，尽管发病率和死亡率的联系。在土著人的烟草控制的特点是的干预最少的正式评估和非常有限的节目传送。大多数的研究都集中在简短的干预或以社区为基础的方法。有非常有限的或没有评价文化上适当的戒烟计划在澳大利亚。对土著烟草控制的卓越中心（ceitc）对澳大利亚土著人在戒烟计划有兴趣。有些节目组也被安排表明主流人群一些积极的成果，但他们无法在所有的土著吸烟。最近英国的一项研究发现，治疗组比单独治疗更有用。小组治疗的结果是30%，而个体化治疗的结果是只有19%。开发一个土著吸烟是理解文化很重要的适当的戒烟计划，戒烟的本土政治和历史方面的。大多数的组织安排戒烟运动未能理解它，这是活动似乎没有有效的原因。
放弃抽烟（勇气）是一个文化适合密集的戒烟计划，是专为土著吸烟者和它是由galambila原住民医疗服务和mncdgp发达。该计划的概念是通过放弃猫是由工作组由它的第一作者是一个普通医生和董事辞职猫程序开发。原住民社区控制医疗服务或ACCMs和AHWs为每ceitc建议直接或间接参与该计划的每一个阶段的发展。有大量的研究中涉及到的程序和ACCMs和AHWs帮助了很多使研究更容易。的发展“戒烟”的计划是由联盟的新南威尔士师和新南威尔士州癌症研究协会。
