Staff in hospital emergency departments will give e-cigarette starter packs to smokers as part of a new research project to help people quit.
The study, which is funded by the National Institute for Health Research, will run over 30 months across five hospitals in England and Scotland.
“Attending the emergency department offers a valuable opportunity for people to be supported to quit smoking”
Ian Pope
Research nurses will take part in the screening and recruitment of patients, while the intervention itself will be delivered by a trained smoking cessation advisor, said those behind the initiative.
The study, which is being run by the Norwich Clinical Trials Unit at the University of East Anglia, aims to start recruiting volunteers in the autumn.
E-cigarette starter packs for smoking cessation to be given in hospitals
Apr 30 2021
A new trial from the University of East Anglia will see smokers attending hospital emergency departments given e-cigarette starter packs to help them quit.
Image Credit: University of East Anglia
The initiative comes as a Cochrane Review - the international gold standard for high quality, trusted health information – about vaping is updated today.
The review, led by the University of Oxford and involving the UEA team, shows how nicotine electronic cigarettes could increase the number of people who stop smoking compared to nicotine replacement therapy – such as chewing gum and patches – and compared to electronic cigarettes that do not contain nicotine.
Smokers at A&E to be offered free vaping kits
Five hospitals will take part in the trial in a bid to help people quit
A man smoking an electronic cigarette (Image: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire)
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Smokers who attend a hospital A&E department are to be given a free e-cigarette starter pack as part of a trial designed to help people quit.
Vaping starter packs to be given to smokers who visit Leicester Royal Infirmary
The hospital is taking part in a nationwide project to help smokers quit
Smokers will be offered a vaping starter pack to help them quit if they visit Leicester Royal Infirmary s emergency department (Image: Getty)
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