The Inspiration
The Quitober Challenge was inspired by the organisers of such events as Movember, Dryjuly and Febfast challenge months. Also by the quit smoking challenge events run in Ontario and Quebec, Canada, by their Cancer Society, with some 38,000 smokers participating in 2009.

Together We Quit....
By creating a groundswell of employers supporting their staff to quit smoking we
are tapping into the same forces that got smokers started in the first place,
their social network.

Our Successful Pilot
We ran a successful pilot event in October last year with four Australian universities including the Uni of Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide. and Southern Queensland, where 26 staff smokers participated and 10 (38%) managed to quit for the month. In 2010 all Australian & New Zealand universities will be invited to participate through our involvement with the AUSA - Australasian University Safety Association.
Any other organisations or businesses are also welcome.

Warwick Bennett, Uni of Canberra Safety Officer
"Quitober is a great initiative & a low cost way of providing Uni of Canberra staff the
  opportunity to quit smoking. Keep up the good work"

Our Team
Our latest member to the team is Lindsay Stainton, our CWO or Chief Wellness Officer.
Lindsay worked for the University of Southern Queensland as their practice manager in the Health Service for 10 years. During this time she implemented a Wellness Program and provided a number of health related workshops including smoking cessation programs. Lindsay is now a partner in Quitober and runs our wellness department coordinating our before-event workshops with Terry White Chemists' TODAY Program.
Desmond Sherlock is trained as an industrial designer, entraprenure & philosopher.
He has founded a number of online start-ups the last one being Oodles.com that he co-founded with his brother Steve Sherlock has considerable experience in the organising of events. His philosophy is that industrial design is as much about helping people quit smoking as it is about creating a better egg slicer. Des is founder & CEO of the Quitober Challenge.


Good Article on Quitober written by Kristyn Comino from the University of Canberra
or link to our blog page


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