Smokers will start receiving anti-smoking text messages from tomorrow in a bid to help them quit the habit.
The service, Txt2Quit, is being run through the Government-funded Quitline. Under the 26-week-long service participants receive personalised messages to help them quit.
Associate Health Minister Damien O'Connor said trials of the service had found it more than doubled a young person's chance of successfully quitting smoking six weeks into the programme.
He said smoking rates were highest among 15 to 34-year-olds, a group the programme targeted.
