Smoking still remains the leading cause of health and financial disparities for people living with mental illness and new and effective strategies are urgently needed. Growing evidence suggests that tobacco harm reduction with nicotine vaping could benefit this...
Summary Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) allow people to inhale nicotine without exposing the users to tobacco smoke. Although they are not completely risk free, the available evidence shows them to be far less harmful than smoking. E-cigarettes are effective in...
Nicotine is portrayed as the “Bad guy” from its association with smoking. Because it is the most famous ingredients of tobacco, it has been accused of causing the harms of smoking, when in reality just about everything in burning tobacco causes disease and death...
The cost of smoking to the UK Government is approximately £12.6 billion a year, made up of £1.4 billion spent on social care for smoking related care needs, £2.5 billion spent on NHS services and £8.6 billion of lost productivity in businesses*. But what is smoking...
When you smoke, your brain changes in response to the very high levels of nicotine delivered by cigarettes. Those brain changes cause you to become addicted to nicotine, and that addiction can make stopping smoking very difficult. Nicotine is the chemical in tobacco...