Can vaping help you quit smoking?

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board, says of the many methods smokers use to quit, going cold turkey has a two per cent success rate, other nicotine replacement therapies such as patches or gum, hypnosis and cessation medications, vary from eight to 10 per cent, while vaping has a 20 per cent success rate. He also cites studies that“I’ve lost my father-in-law and my grandmother to smoking-related lung cancer,” says Tempest, who himself vaped to quit smoking.

“In the beginning, when there were fewer flavours and more people were using e-cigarettes as smoking cessation tools, we had a different cohort,” she says, adding that now more users are adolescents and children, largely due to flashy marketing and candy-like flavours. “Data has long shown that nicotine exposure has adverse consequences on brain development in children.

 

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