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Answers to your questions health prevention Smoking cessation

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Is vaping dangerous for your health and can it be used to stop smoking?

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Smoking cessation
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E-cigarettes can help you reduce your cigarette consumption, or even stop smoking altogether. However, there is currently insufficient evidence to suggest that e-cigarettes are any more or less effective than approved smoking cessation treatments. What's more, although the risks and harm associated with e-cigarettes are lower than those of tobacco, they are not without health effects. It should therefore be considered as a temporary cessation aid and not as an alternative to tobacco, and its benefit/risk balance should be weighed up. What's more, it can act as an incentive for younger smokers.


For further information, we recommend that you consult :

- Le site info tabac
- Tabac info service website
- The Santé Publique France website and its section on tobacco
- The "Ameli" health insurance site and its thematic dossier on tobacco


And more specifically, the resources you can consult to stop smoking:

- Tabac info service: the application that suggests ways to stop smoking, which you can download here.
- 3889: a free telephone service staffed by tobaccologists, Monday to Saturday, 8am to 8pm.
- A tobaccologist: a professional who can help you quit under the right conditions, easily found on the tabac info service website here

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