louise ross the big debate: e-cigarettes - an alternative to smoking?
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This non promotional meeting is organised in collaboration with Education for Health and funded by Teva Respiratory
The Big Debate: e-cigarettesAn alternative to smoking?
Louise Ross, Stop Smoking Service Manager Leicester City Council
UK/KOL/16/0003ac Date of preparation: February 2016
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Disclosures
Honorarium from Teva Respiratory and Education for Health for this meeting only.
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What do experts say?Leading, internationally-renowned professors, key opinion leaders in tobacco control, say e-cigarettes are a gateway out of smoking ‘E-cigarettes offer a potentially useful way out of smoking, especially for those people who have not succeeded with tried and tested methods’
Professor Robert West
University College London
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What does Public Health England say?
‘E-cigarettes can effectively support quitting. Clients of stop smoking services who combined e-cigarettes with behavioural support had the highest quit rates in 2014-15.’
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What do stop smoking advisors say?
‘Many of my patients with complex COPD use a vaporiser to stop smoking. One man on assessment could hardly walk, was deathly white and had beads of sweat on his face when he tried to talk. Within 2 weeks he had less shortness of breath on exertion, within 8 weeks he had been able to reduce his meds, and within 16 weeks he said he was reaping the benefits’
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What do patients say?
‘I've never been able to stop smoking, even with patches, gum, counselling, Champix – this time I've not even wanted a cigarette.’‘I kept waiting for this hard bit to start, that everyone talks about – it just didn't happen’
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What do e-cig opponents say?• ‘It might be a gateway to
smoking’ (Data shows it’s a gateway OUT of smoking)
• ‘It might re-normalise smoking’ (As e-cig use goes up, smoking goes down)
• ‘It could entice kids’ (There’s no evidence of this)
• ‘They’re still ‘addicted’’ (So what?)
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What do the results say?Using an e-cigarette, either with or without nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), gives around a 20% greater success rate than NRT alone. It’s important, though, to be encouraging and to get smokers switching to the right kit
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What do YOU say?
Louise [email protected]
@grannylouisa
Are you ready to help your patients switch from a lifelong smoking habit that will kill half of them, to using a device that contains NO tar and NO carbon monoxide?