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  • Vaping: a guide for health and social care professionals

    New and fully updated edition!

    Healthcare professionals have an important role to play in ensuring that people who smoke have accurate information about vaping founded upon evidence.

    But we also need to remember to ask questions of, and listen to, people who vape and this briefing carries this message alongside reviewing the evidence on effectiveness and safety of vaping, and addressing some of the issues that have been raised about the use of vapes.

    Vaping has a role in helping people who smoke to quit, reduce the harm from smoking, and manage temporary abstinence.

    "I must say I am very impressed by the guide. It's so full of common sense and empathy.”
    Ex-smoker who quit by switching to vaping