Table 5.

Numbers of partners and champions contacted and numbers who supported the ‘10,000 Lives’ initiative in first 26 months

Group/organisation	No. of contacted	No. of champions*/supporter†/ partner‡/participants§ identified (n (%))
Clinical staff*	133	7 (5.3)
Community service staff*	26	2 (7.7)
GP centres*	76	1 (1.3)
Regional and local council staff†	15	6 (40)
Politicians† including minister, MP, mayor, councillors	24	24 (100)
Organisations‡ for collaboration	18	15 (83.3)
Clinicians§ for having smoking cessation masterclass training	133	70 (52.6)
Students/teens§ registered for film competition	21	6 (28.6)
Indigenous volunteers§ trained for brief intervention training by B.strong collaborated by ‘10,000 Lives’.	90	40 (40)
Total	536	171 (31.9)

*Champion: the people or the unit who routinely worked for smoking cessation, kept regular communication with feedback to senior project officer of ‘10,000 Lives’ of his smoking cessation activities.

†Supporter: provided support and did advocacy for ’10,000 Lives’ initiative.

‡Partners: collaborated and worked together with ‘10,000 Lives’ initiative.

§Participants: participated in training/programme/competition.

GP, General Practice; MP, Member of Parliament.