Made it your goal to quit vaping in 2025? Good news: a team of scientists, including a group from the University of Oxford, claim to have identified the best strategies to help you succeed.
Vaping has become a lucrative lifeline for convenience stores, with profits from these products surging past their tobacco rivals. Vapes are now four times as profitable for shops as tobacco, a University of Edinburgh study has found.
In the U.S., recent reports estimate that 5.9% of youth and 4.5% of adults currently vape. This proportion varies worldwide, however. In Britain, an estimated 7.8% of youth and 11% of adults vape. Vaping nicotine is addictive, and more and more research is being done to find out how best to quit.
Active-duty U.S. Army soldiers are nearly 10 times more likely to use nicotine pouches than civilians, heightening their long-term risk for cancer, according to a University of Virginia (UVA) study. Researchers, in collaboration with Fort Liberty Public Health and the University of North Carolina, surveyed 2,000 soldiers and found that 25% had used nicotine pouches in the past month, compared to less than 3% of the civilian population.
British scientists say they found “alarming levels of dangerous metals” and “dangerously high levels of nicotine” in a batch of illegal vapes seized during a raid in Derby, England in 2023. During the 18-month joint study by the University of Derby and public health and trading standards officers, toxicologists tested 10 illegal products and found “huge and often alarming levels of dangerous metals”, including cadmium, copper, nickel, and lead.
The Biden administration has moved closer to implementing a rule that would limit nicotine levels in cigarettes, with the proposal clearing an Office of Management and Budget review on Friday.
If someone you care about is quitting vaping, they will need extra support and encouragement from those around them. Quitting tobacco products of any kind is extremely difficult and nicotine withdrawal can make people feel heightened stress and irritability, so be patient and remember that helping someone stay positive, focused, and distracted can make a huge difference.
A new study, co-led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher, set out to identify the most effective strategies for helping people quit vaping. The findings, published today in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, suggest that varenicline, a prescription medication often used to help people stop smoking, and text message-based interventions can help people quit.
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