Melanie Butler, the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs and Mental Health Coordinator at Cherbourg Community Health, talks about their efforts to reduce smoking in the community. Robyn McIntosh, a health worker trained in SmokeCheck, conducts a brief intervention with Linda.

Smokecheck, developed by Queensland Health is a brief intervention program delivered by health workers to identify, encourage and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who smoke to make positive and healthy behaviour changes. The case study also highlights the challenges of assisting patients to quit.