A sleek, colourful product offers a “sweet, ripe watermelon taste” with a “cool and icy kick” that will “tease your tongue and make your whole mouth quiver with joy”.
Vaping has shown promise as an effective quit smoking aid in the general population, but prior to this clinical trial vaping’s role in helping those experiencing socio-economic hardship to quit was unknown.
On oncology wards, busy clinicians are often burdened by time pressure and competing demands and may struggle to implement the 5As (Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, Arrange) or ABC (Assess, Brief, Counsel) models for smoking cessation. However, despite various suggested models of care, implementation of cessation programs after a cancer diagnosis has been poor, with its management frequently perceived as being “out of scope” to core clinical care. But since the 2014 US Surgeon General’s (SG) report on smoking cessation, there has been increasing recognition that it is vital for improving patient outcomes.
In October last year, we published findings from our retrospective cohort analysis of data from the Generation Vape study in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, accompanied by an InSight+ article. Our analysis examined the relationship between adolescent e-cigarette use (vaping) and subsequent cigarette smoking and was the first Australian study to do so using individual-level data. We found that adolescents aged 12–17 years who vaped were significantly more likely to subsequently initiate smoking, with the strongest increased risks observed among the youngest participants.
Research suggests that persuasive and misleading communication practices are widely used by tobacco and vape industry actors to undermine the development of public policy that threatens their profits.
New research shows Australian adolescents who have vaped are five times more likely to initiate smoking compared to their peers who have never vaped.
Experts are calling for an investigation into the toxicity of nicotine alternative 6-methylnicotine and the health consequences of inhaling it.
Vapes are relatively new, very popular, and easy for almost anyone to access. With increasing concerns about their safety, there is more interest in helping people to quit vaping, but there is limited evidence on how to go about quitting.
New provisional guidance from the RACGP on the use of e-cigarettes to help Australians quit smoking provides a balanced approach for GPs, according to tobacco control experts.
