About Youth Quitline
In August 2005, our team established the world’s first peer-led Youth Quitline, providing smoking cessation counselling service to youths aged 25 or younger. The Youth Quitline was awarded the “Outstanding Health Promotion Project” in 2011 and the “10th Health & Medical Research Fund Anniversary Awards” in 2021 by the Food and Health Bureau. Since 2012, we have been a partner of the WHO Collaborating Center for Smoking Cessation and Treatment of Tobacco Dependence.
The Youth Quitline has been supported by the the following funding sources:
- Health Care Promotion Fund, Food and Health Bureau
- Health and Medical Research Fund, Health Bureau
- Hong Kong Council of Smoking and Health
- Sir Robert Kotewall Professorship in Public Health
- Studies in Health Services, Food and Health Bureau
- Tobacco & Alcohol Control Office, The Department of Health
- The University of Hong Kong
Service achievement (by Jan 2024)
Media coverage
醫健：醫健寶庫：吸食水煙禍害深 年輕人應當說不 (二零二三年二月十一日)
Main Research Findings of HKU Youth Quitline (29th April, 2021)
香港大學青少年戒煙熱線主要研究結果 (二零二一年四月二十九日)
HKU Youth Quitline – Introduction, Service Achievement and Prospect (31 May 2018)
港大青少年戒煙熱線 – 簡介、服務成果及展望 (二零一八年五月三十一日)