Their latest survey found that overall, 5.6m adults currently vape, 53 per cent who have stopped smoking, 39 per cent are still smoking and eight per cent have never smoked.
Among all those who stopped smoking in the between 2019 and 2024 just over half have reported they used a vape to quit, equating to 2.7m people. Of those a third have also stopped vaping and the average duration of their vaping was a year.
There is evidence that suggests vaping is an effective aid to quitting smoking and less harmful than smoking but this data shows the scale of quitting linked to smoking in recent years.
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