![]() This is out of line with expert reviews from the UK and US, concluding that using regulated nicotine vaping products is far less harmful than smoking. In 2020, 38% of smokers believed that vaping is as harmful as smoking and 15% believed that vaping is more harmful. There are still concerns around increasing misperception of the relative risk caused by vaping products, compared to smoked tobacco. The proportion of vapers who also smoke, or ‘dual users’, has declined since 2012. Vaping prevalence was between 17.5% and 20.1% among current smokers, around 11% among former smokers and between 0.3% and 0.6% among those who have never smoked. Smoking prevalence continues to fall and is between 13.8% and 16% depending on the survey. Similar to last year, around 6% of adults are current vapers, equating to about 2.7 million adult vapers in England. The law bans the sale of smoking and vaping products to under 18s but age-of-sale violations are being reported. Smoking prevalence among young people, including those who smoked sometimes or more than once a week, was 6.7% in March 2020, similar to March 2019, at 6.3%. Vaping has plateaued in adults and young people since the last PHE report in March 2020.Īround 4.8% of young people (aged 11 to 18 years) reported vaping at least once a month – the same as last year – and most of these were either current or former smokers (only 0.8% of young people who had never smoked currently vape). Those using a vaping product as part of their quit attempt in local, stop smoking services have some of the highest quit-success rates – between 59.7% and 74% in 2019 to 2020. Data from systematic reviews since PHE’s 2018 report show that vaping products were significantly more effective for helping people stop smoking than NRT. It is estimated that in 2017, more than 50,000 smokers stopped smoking with the aid of a vaping product who would otherwise have carried on smoking. ![]() In England in 2020, nicotine vaping products were the most popular aid used by smokers trying to quit, with 27.2% of smokers using a vaping product compared with 18.2% using nicotine replacement therapy ( NRT) products (such as patches and gum) and 4.4% using the prescription medicine varenicline.Įvidence over the years suggests that as the use of vaping products in quit attempts increases, the number of successful quits in England also increases. However, it is still too early to assess the full effect of the pandemic, with much of the data examined in this report being pre-pandemic. The report also provides an update on the use of nicotine vaping products among young people and adults and examines the data on people’s perception of risk.Ĭoronavirus (COVID-19) is likely to have had an impact on smoking and vaping behaviours in both adults and young people. The report takes an in-depth look at the latest evidence on the effectiveness of nicotine vaping products in helping people to stop smoking.
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