Of these, 2.6m are women.
Nearly 400,000 of them are pregnant.
Paul Baker, from Allan Carr’s Easyway, a stop-smoking organization, told ITV News that it had seen increases in the number of people wanting assistance to quit vaping too. He said, “If we went back five years, it was probably 10 per cent of people were vapers. but at that time, they were dual users. That meant they smoked, and they vaped.
"Now it's just over 20 per cent. But actually what we're seeing is more and more people that have never smoked that have just purely vaped that are attending."
Across age groups, the popularity of vaping is also growing. Over a million users are 40-49 years old and 856,000 are aged 18-24.
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