The Role of Electronic Cigarettes in Smoking Cessation

The RACGP smoking cessation guidelines say that they're certainly not first line therapy for supporting smoking cessation. People which have encouraged to try the approved pharmacotherapies nicotine replacement therapy and for an unclean and be appropriate on being options there as safe alternatives. Having said that if people have not been able to successfully quit using those approved therapies, there may be some patients who you would consider prescribing nicotine vaping products. The patient needs to understand that we do not know the long term health effects ofcigarettes.