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Supporting clients who want to stop vaping

National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT); 2025.

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This guidance is directed to stop smoking practitioners to guide clients who ask about stopping vaping. The NCSCT guidance provides practical advice for stop‑smoking practitioners on how to support people who want to stop vaping, while ensuring they do not relapse to smoking. It recognises that many people use vaping as an effective stop‑smoking aid, but some eventually want to quit vaping — either gradually or immediately.

Key Points:

Clients can choose to stop vaping gradually (reducing nicotine strength, reducing frequency) or in one step, depending on personal preference and relapse risk.

Vaping is an effective quitting tool, and NICE recommends using vapes for as long as they help prevent relapse to smoking. The main priority when assisting someone to quit vaping is avoiding a return to cigarette use. [ncsct.co.uk]

Support should be tailored to the person’s stage of quitting and their risk of relapse. This includes understanding their reasons for wanting to stop vaping.

Stopping vaping does not require a full behavioural support programme. Instead, practitioners should offer information, reassurance, and guidance. [ncsct.co.uk]

The guidance suggests using the familiar Ask, Advise, Act model to structure conversations with clients.

Keep vapes put of the sight of children, local government urges

The Local Government Association (LGA) is calling for strict new measures to regulate the display and marketing of vaping products in the same way as tobacco, in plain packaging and with age-of-sale signage.

Councils are especially concerned by the marketing of vapes with fruity and bubble gum flavours and colourful child-friendly packaging.

The LGA says there has been a sharp increase in incidents where shops have been caught selling vapes to youngsters and councils have had to step in. It adds there should be a ban on free samples of vaping products being given out to people of any age.

E-Cigarettes

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