Alder Hey children’s hospital opens its vaping cessation service for nicotine-dependent 11- to 15-year-olds
has set up a stop-vaping clinic for teenagers in an attempt to curb the rise in e-cigarette use among young people.The locally commissioned clinic – set up to help nicotine-dependent 11- to 15-year-olds to stop vaping – is thought to be the first NHS service of its kind in
Alder Hey’s clinic will be focusing on 11- to 15-year-olds – a group that vapes less than older teenagers but whose numbers have continued to rise in the last year, according to a survey by Action on Smoking andProf Rachel Isba, consultant in paediatric public health medicine at Alder Hey, said: “With the alarming rise in the number of children and young people turning to vaping and the significant uncertainty regarding the long-term impacts and potential harms of this trend, our clinic aims to...
The lack of current data on how vaping affects young people means treatment may take several forms, with questions raised in consultations about the level of nicotine dependence and the idea that there may be cases of young people who are addicted to the process of vaping but not to nicotine.of scientific evidence found that nicotine e-cigarettes help more people to stop smoking than nicotine replacement therapy such as patches or gum.
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