After all, the majority of smokers want to quit, but have difficulty doing so for biopsychosocial reasons. These include an “opt-out” quit smoking service to all smokers at any point in contact with the healthcare service and pregnant women being given financial incentives to quit smoking. Assisting an individual to quit smoking should be done using an evidence-based approach, i.e. There is some clamouring for increasing the use of electronic cigarettes as a way to help smokers quit, despite the lack of evidence of its efficacy to help individuals completely quit smoking. Instead of helping people quit smoking, electronic cigarettes are increasingly playing a role in hooking youth onto this life-long lethal habit.

Source: The Star June 01, 2021 05:01 UTC