A new national smokefree law increased calls to a national quitline

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Monthly Quitline caller data and advertising expenditure for 24 months before and 12 months after the new national smokefree law

Year	Month	Registered callers (N)	First NRT vouchers issued from the Quitline (N)	Quitline advertising expenditure ($NZ 000s)	Other smoking related advertising expenditure ($NZ 000s)	Print media in major NZ news-papers (N)
2002	December	1948	1069	2	13	36
2003	January	3436	1326	165	6	38
2003	February	3246	1610	307	37	34
2003	March	3389	1659	498	14	76
2003	April	3824	1656	198	23	44
2003	May	3555	1648	682	66	45
2003	June	3633	1603	330	39	34
2003	July	3686	1914	406	57	45
2003	August	3118	1494	781	0	62
2003	September	3022	1647	140	661	30
2003	October	2154	1098	98	574	54
2003	November	1783	900	7	1	37
2003	December	1353	751	0	0	52
2004	January	2592	1127	189	24	28
2004	February	2143	717	165	327	21
2004	March	3277	1672	161	0	31
2004	April	2585	1191	220	314	29
2004	May	3122	1161	128	759	29
2004	June	2772	1572	209	160	52
2004	July	2765	1292	223	383	25
2004	August	3115	1258	154	369	22
2004	September	2691	1329	0	414	30
2004	October	2549	1025	234	121	26
2004	November	2722	1698	140	591	57
2004	December*	2583	1642	1	209	115
2005	January	3130	1968	0	411	39
2005	February	2446	1181	45	367	45
2005	March	3306	1943	73	359	22
2005	April	2391	1539	0	522	52
2005	May	2263	1664	335	422	59
2005	June	1730	1095	160	225	32
2005	July	1948	1148	166	239	49
2005	August	2345	1473	156	281	41
2005	September	2329	1258	219	297	31
2005	October	2232	1162	177	0	38
2005	November	1840	965	0	0	29

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