6 Aug 2024

A to Z of smoking cessation products

From Nights, 10:18 pm on 6 August 2024

There are a myriad of ways and methods to help quit tobacco, which now also includes devices like vapes, e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products.

That last category, Heated tobacco products or HTPs, have been in the spotlight recently after the government cut their excise in half, in what the minister said was an effort to make them more attractive as an alternative to smoking

But how effective are HTP's and how doe all these devices stack up when it comes to quitting cigarettes?

Emile Donovan speaks to Smokefree Expert Advisory Group member and tobacco researcher at the University of Auckland Professor Chris Bullen.

Young man with vape, vaping, blowing a vape cloud.

Photo: Unsplash / Tbel Abuseridze