{"id":37192,"date":"2018-05-16T11:55:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/?page_id=37192"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T20:09:31","slug":"information-for-smokers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/patients-visitors\/visiting-the-hospital\/information-for-smokers\/","title":{"rendered":"Information for smokers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignnone wp-image-37193 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hospital-Doorway-Sticker-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Hospital property is smole-free. We all breathe the same air.\" width=\"740\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hospital-Doorway-Sticker-cropped.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hospital-Doorway-Sticker-cropped-600x268.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hospital-Doorway-Sticker-cropped-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As of January 1<sup>st <\/sup>2018, <strong>all hospital property<\/strong> in Ontario is entirely smoke free. This is a new provincial law that affects all hospitals in Ontario, including all three of The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s campuses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Smoke-Free-Ontario-Act-The-Basics.pdf\">Learn the basics about the Smoke Free Ontario Act<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of the hospital\u2019s former designated smoking areas have been removed and can\u2019t be used for smoking anymore. Anyone wishing to smoke must now leave hospital property.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where can patients and visitors go to smoke? <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Civic Campus \u2013 cigarette butt receptacles have been placed on Carling Ave. and Ruskin Ave.<\/li>\n<li>Riverside Campus \u2013 Riverside Drive or Smyth Road<\/li>\n<li>General Campus \u2013 Smyth Road, Roger Guindon Avenue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What about cars and parking lots? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Smoking in cars and in parking lots is not permitted on hospital property.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do I need to know? <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More information, directions and maps are available from volunteer services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>You may be fined $305 for smoking on hospital property.\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Are you thinking of quitting or reducing your tobacco use?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Resources for smokers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My Quit: <a href=\"https:\/\/myquit.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyQuit &#8211; Quit Smoking Your Way<\/a><\/li>\n<li>University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI):\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/pwc.ottawaheart.ca\/care\/quitting-smoking\/quit-smoking-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quit Smoking Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ottawa Public Health: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawapublichealth.ca\/en\/public-health-topics\/quitting-smoking.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quitting Smoking<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Canadian Cancer Society: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.ca\/en\/?region=on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canadian Cancer Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Smoker\u2019s Helpline: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smokershelpline.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smokers&#8217; Helpline<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cancer Care Ontario: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancercareontario.ca\/en\/cancer-care-ontario\/programs\/aboriginal-programs\/tobacco\">Aboriginal Tobacco Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ontario\u2019s Anesthesiologists: <a href=\"https:\/\/ontariosanesthesiologists.ca\/what-we-do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stop smoking for safer surgery<\/a><b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Help them quit: Helping patients who smoke on their quit journey<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"videoandtextcentermobile\"><iframe title=\"In-patient quitting video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s8Gwh3Ss4a8\" width=\"740\" height=\"330\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of January 1st 2018, all hospital property in Ontario is entirely smoke free. This is a new provincial law that affects all hospitals in Ontario, including all three of The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s campuses. Learn the basics about the Smoke Free Ontario Act All of the hospital\u2019s former designated smoking areas have been removed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":203,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37192\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}