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A new report warns that the number of smokers given help from the NHS to give up appears to have halved in three years, with increasing numbers turning to e-cigarettes.
The number of people given help to give up smoking from the NHS is set to halve by next year, a report has warned.
Experts from University College London say current trends mean the number of those using the services is likely to fall from around 800,000 in 2011/12 to just 400,000 in the current financial year.
Researchers said the patterns may reflect growing numbers of people turning to e-cigarettes to help them give up, as well as a lack of investment in NHS services.
The report said that while NHS methods had been shown to work – with around half of those using them successfully quitting for at least four weeks, early indications suggest e-cigarettes could be as helpful, in schemes which give support to those giving up smoking.
However, most people using e-cigarettes get no such help, and 90 per cent continue tobacco smoking alongside “vaping” researchers said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs...kers-getting-NHS-help-to-quit-has-halved.html
The number of people given help to give up smoking from the NHS is set to halve by next year, a report has warned.
Experts from University College London say current trends mean the number of those using the services is likely to fall from around 800,000 in 2011/12 to just 400,000 in the current financial year.
Researchers said the patterns may reflect growing numbers of people turning to e-cigarettes to help them give up, as well as a lack of investment in NHS services.
The report said that while NHS methods had been shown to work – with around half of those using them successfully quitting for at least four weeks, early indications suggest e-cigarettes could be as helpful, in schemes which give support to those giving up smoking.
However, most people using e-cigarettes get no such help, and 90 per cent continue tobacco smoking alongside “vaping” researchers said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs...kers-getting-NHS-help-to-quit-has-halved.html