UKVIA Celebrates National No Smoking Day
The UK Vaping Industry Association celebrated National No Smoking Day by sharing vaping testimonials from smokers and highlighting its 10 Vaping Truths factsheet
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by Dave Cross
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The UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA) celebrated National No Smoking Day by sharing the success stories from adult smokers who have used vapes to finally quit tobacco. Commenting on how vaping products work as an evidence-backed quitting tool, UKVIA shared its 10 Vaping Truths factsheet and asked for other ex-smokers to share their vaping journeys.
UKVIA says: “Smoking remains one of the biggest causes of preventable death and disease in the UK.
“Vaping - as an evidence-backed quitting tool - has already helped millions of adults kick the deadly habit FOR GOOD. In fact, half of all quit attempts over the past five years involved a vape.
“Sadly, misperceptions about the reduced risk alternative are at an all-time high which is preventing many smokers from making the switch.
“In honour of #NationalNoSmokingDay, the UKVIA is correcting the narrative about vaping and shining a light on the critical role it has to play in helping the nation’s remaining six million smokers quit.
“Check out our 10 Vaping Truths factsheet for the evidence on vaping and remember – every cigarette not smoked is a victory for you and for public health!”
The UKVIA 10 Vaping Truths factsheet:
On its website, UKVIA has put together a series of testimonies from adults who were finally empowered to kick the deadly habit through vaping, collected as part of the organisations Real Vapers campaign.
“They represent just a handful of the millions of people whose lives have been changed for the better because of vaping,” says the trade body.
One Real Vaper wrote: “Smoked aged eight in a bus shelter in Kirkintilloch, got addicted smoked till I was thirty-nine then switched to vaping & never looked back. Best decision I’ve ever made. Got my mum who’s now seventy-two into it & she no longer needs her twenty a day B&H habit. Vaping changed our lives.”
Another Real Vaper commented: “I am a 60-year-old woman who has smoked 30 a day from the age of 16. I switched to vaping this year and haven’t had a cigarette since. I’ve tried stopping smoking before and always went back to it, but I have no desire to go back to it now. I understand the concerns around vaping especially for young people but for me it has been a game changer and finally enabled me to give up cigarettes.”
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Photo Credit:
Smoke photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash, 10 Vaping Truths by UKVIA
Dave Cross
Journalist at POTVDave is a freelance writer; with articles on music, motorbikes, football, pop-science, vaping and tobacco harm reduction in Sounds, Melody Maker, UBG, AWoL, Bike, When Saturday Comes, Vape News Magazine, and syndicated across the Johnston Press group. He was published in an anthology of “Greatest Football Writing”, but still believes this was a mistake. Dave contributes sketches to comedy shows and used to co-host a radio sketch show. He’s worked with numerous start-ups to develop content for their websites.
