North-East regional tobacco control programme FRESH and BALANCE highlights the ongoing need for the Stoptober campaign to help smokers successfully switch to vaping. The impact of smoking on the United Kingdom stretches beyond treatment costs, running into hundreds of millions of pounds. In Sunderland along, the cost of smoking (combined with alcohol) costs the city […]
After years of the Welsh Senedd pushing against tobacco harm reduction, Wales now promotes vaping to smokers and is proving crucial to driving down smoking rates. NHS Wales is building on the success experienced in England to include advice about electronic cigarettes as part of its Help Me Quit service. Since April 2020, there has […]
Public Health England is holding its 10th Stoptober to encourage tobacco users to stop smoking or swap to the less harmful vaping alternative. With ten years in the bag, 2.3 million tobacco users have now successfully made quit attempts thanks to the campaign. There are over 6 million smokers left using tobacco each day in […]
A new study from the Yale School of Public Health shows the mental health benefits of switching to vaping. A team of researchers at the Yale School of Public Health have produced estimates from their study that providing patients with depression with the tools to quit smoking could save as many as 125,000 lives over […]
The UK’s leading charity campaigning on behalf of electronic cigarette users says we are facing a “real threat” from the World Health Organisation. The UK’s leading charity campaigning on behalf of electronic cigarette users says we are facing a “real threat” from the World Health Organization (WHO). The threat comes from the adverse research it […]
