{"id":546703,"date":"2026-03-17T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/546703\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:36:09","slug":"todd-harper-launching-australias-national-quitting-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/546703\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Harper: Launching Australia&#8217;s National Quitting Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Harper, CEO at Cancer Council Victoria, shared a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/todd-harper-am_quit-smoking-vaping-get-expert-cessation-activity-7439494471861379072-NUxK?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAGOP0cUBk3kASGvRvrPqRbY5z_dU_Cfiq5s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we launch Australia\u2019s national quitting platform, <a href=\"http:\/\/quit.org.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">quit.org.au<\/a>.\u00a0This is\u00a0a major milestone in empowering people to quit smoking and vaping, by guiding them on a digital journey designed using\u00a0behaviour\u00a0change research.<\/p>\n<p>Using digital insights and user\u00a0behaviour\u00a0on the platform, quit.org.au can\u00a0help people whether they smoke,\u00a0vape\u00a0or do both,\u00a0to recommend\u00a0tailored\u00a0content, and identify resources and strategies aligned to their needs and relevant to their home state. This includes\u00a0enhanced versions of the Cost Calculator, Health Effects\u00a0tool\u00a0and My Quit Plan,\u00a0which now cover smoking,\u00a0vaping\u00a0and\u00a0dual\u00a0use.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s milestone follows more than two years of dedicated work across Cancer Council Victoria on this Australian-government funded project.<br \/>I encourage\u00a0you to\u00a0share the new platform with the people you support\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quit.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other articles featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/tag\/todd-harper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Harper<\/a> on\u00a0 OncoDaily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd Harper, CEO at Cancer Council Victoria, shared a post on LinkedIn: \u201cToday we launch Australia\u2019s national quitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-546703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}