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Smoking cessation medicines may not follow this pattern because quit attempts are influenced by a range of factors. Knowledge of whether dispensing of these medicines has changed since the pandemic is lacking. We explored the change in dispensing of publicly subsidised smoking cessation medicines since the pandemic.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Methods<\/jats:title>Australia's universal health\u2010care system provides access to government\u2010subsidised medicines via the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and records of dispensed medicines are publicly available on a nationally aggregated level. We retrieved Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data from January 2016 to January 2021. We used interrupted time series modelling to quantify the impact of COVID\u201019 on dispensing of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) patches, varenicline and all smoking cessation treatments combined separately.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>After an initial spike in medicines at the onset of the pandemic, the monthly rate of prescriptions dispensed for varenicline was predominantly within predicted ranges, while that of NRT patches was predominantly below predicted ranges.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Discussion and Conclusions<\/jats:title>There has been a differential change in the number of subsidised smoking cessation medicines supplied in Australia since the COVID\u201019 pandemic, with varenicline prescriptions largely within, and NRT patches largely lower than, expected ranges. 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