{"id":26284,"date":"2023-07-15T13:32:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T17:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=26284"},"modified":"2023-07-15T13:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T17:32:54","slug":"southend-essex-uk-low-smoking-rate-thanks-to-promoting-the-switch-from-smoking-to-vaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/26284","title":{"rendered":"SOUTHEND, ESSEX, UK [Low Smoking Rate Thanks To Promoting The Switch From Smoking To Vaping]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x1e56ztr\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"92qa6\" data-offset-key=\"a5v2h-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a5v2h-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a5v2h-0-1\">&#8220;The <span style=\"color: #00ff00\"><strong>city\u2019s director of public health<\/strong><\/span>, Krishna Ramkhelawon\u00b8 said consistent figures for helping people quit smoking are behind the belief that <strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\">Southend is on target to achieve the target where under 5 per cent of people are smokers<\/span><\/strong>. He said: \u201cThe reason why they believe that is our success rate remains quite high for the number that we are getting through the service. It has remained over 40 per cent, where most places are dropping to 30 per cent in terms of quit rate. <\/span><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\"><strong>The approach we have taken since 2018 was to move people onto vaping<\/strong><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"a5v2h-0-3\">, the reason being that the comparative data we had in 2017 was that <\/span><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\"><strong>using tobacco was more likely to give you other forms of diseases than vaping could<\/strong><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"a5v2h-0-5\">.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a5v2h-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a5v2h-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a5v2h-0-5\"> Vaping itself has since come under the spotlight with some raising concerns it may also be harmful, especially to young people. Mr Ramkhelawon added: \u201cThere was nothing to suggest what vaping could do and that\u2019s the piece of work that\u2019s ongoing. <\/span><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\"><strong>We introduced in 2019 the scheme where we encouraged people to go for vaping and quit smoking<\/strong><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"a5v2h-0-7\"> and I think <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"a5v2h-0-8\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\">t<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\">hat\u2019s the main reason why we are seeing a high rate of tobacco quitters<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"a5v2h-0-9\">. The city\u2019s<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"a5v2h-0-10\"> stop smoking service includes <strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\">29 GPs and 11 pharmacists<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"a5v2h-0-11\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\"> signed up to provide 12 weeks of support to quitters<\/span><\/strong>, with the latter offering a walk-in service. <\/span><strong>Four vape shops in the city are offering a Vape Swap Smoking Service which includes a free starter kit<\/strong><span data-offset-key=\"a5v2h-0-13\">.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00\"><strong>ARTICLE LINK:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.echo-news.co.uk\/news\/23657718.southend-smoke-free-2030-vape-push\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southend could be smoke free by 2030 after vape push<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"SOUTHEND%2C%20ESSEX%2C%20UK%20%5BLow%20Smoking%20Rate%20Thanks%20To%20Promoting%20The%20Switch%20From%20Smoking%20To%20Vaping%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The city\u2019s director of public health, Krishna Ramkhelawon\u00b8 said consistent figures for helping people quit smoking are behind the belief that Southend is on target&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent_news","category-vaping-news","wpcat-15-id","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26284"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26290,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284\/revisions\/26290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}