For a lot of us as Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people, is to look at our smoking
habits.
Because for a lot of us who smoke, that makes
us more vulnerable to be able to get coronavirus
or the flu.
So what’s important is to cut back on your
smoking, or give up if you can.
You know that’s really important and there’s
two good reasons for that.
One is, that you want to have a strong body.
Particularly your lungs, and particularly
your heart.
And that’s two of the big ones that smoking
impact on.
But the other really important one is to make
sure that we don’t smoke around other people
because our family members, they can also
be affected by our smoke.
What we breathe out, they breathe in, and
that’s not good.
Remember that you’ve got Quitline, a really
important service that you can ring up.
There’s also My Quitbuddy which is an app,
and there’s plenty of apps on the internet.
So while you're sitting around with nothing to do because you're in isolation
get on that computer, get on your phone, look up
these apps, look at ways to give up.
We can do it if we all do it together.
Best of luck.
