ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England)2026
Associations between the national 'Swap to Stop' programme offering free vapes for smoking cessation and quit attempts in England: Results from a population-based survey.
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- Risk Modulation by Electronic Cigarette Consumption in Cardiovascular Disease and Its Relevance in Cardiac Surgery-A Narrative Review.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2026Review
- Early insights from a national scheme providing vaping devices for smoking cessation: A preliminary evaluation to inform future return-on-investment modelling in England.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Awareness of a national initiative to provide free vapes for smoking cessation (Swap to Stop): a survey of adults in England.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Article
- Cigarette smoking, e-cigarette use, and hypertension: a population-based cross-sectional study.Journal of human hypertension · 2026Article
- Perspectives of Turkish family physicians in Istanbul about e-cigarettes as smoking cessation aids: a cross-sectional survey study.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2026Article
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- Associations between the national 'Swap to Stop' programme offering free vapes for smoking cessation and quit attempts in England: Results from a population-based survey.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Commentary on Buss et al.: State endorsement as a driver of vape-assisted smoking cessation: Interpreting early evidence from Swap to Stop.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsVapes are effective for smoking cessation. The UK Government launched the Swap to Stop initiative in England in December 2023, aiming to encourage people to quit smoking by providing free vape starter kits alongside behavioural support. This study aimed to assess the association between the introduction of Swap to Stop and the proportion of people in England who tried to quit smoking using vapes in the past year.
designData came from the Smoking Toolkit Study, a monthly cross-sectional population-based survey. The primary analysis used an interrupted time-series approach based on Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) regression models.
settingTelephone interviews with people residing in private households in England between December 2021 and December 2024.
participantsPeople aged ≥16 years who smoked in the past year. MEASUREMENTS: The outcome was vape use during past-year quit attempts. The intervention effect was included as a step change in December 2023 to indicate the start of the Swap to Stop programme. The model also included a dummy variable to adjust for above-inflation tobacco tax increases.
findingsThe primary analysis indicated that the introduction of Swap to Stop in December 2023 was associated with a 1.5 absolute percentage point increase (adjusted B = 0.015, 95% confidence interval = 0.005-0.025) in the proportion of people in England using vapes in past-year quit attempts that persisted to December 2024.
conclusionsThe introduction of Swap to Stop (which provides free vape starter kits with behavioural support to quit smoking) in England appears to be associated with a statistically significant increase in quit attempts using vapes.
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