Supporting clients who want to stop vaping

Providing guidance to clients who ask about stopping vaping

When supporting clients who want to stop vaping, our priority should always be to ensure that clients who stop vaping do not return to smoking cigarettes. NICE recommends that people should use vapes for as long as they help prevent them going back to smoking.

It is important to assess why clients want to stop vaping and their risk of relapse, and to plan and prepare appropriately to stop vaping either gradually or in one step.

When working with clients who want to stop vaping, it can be useful to organise support using the Ask, Advise, Act model.

Update: February 2026
This is secondary analysis of data from a single research trial, but the conclusions are valid and suggest that clinicians may want to recommend non-tobacco flavour vapes for people using nicotine vapes to quit smoking. The analysis also shows that nicotine vapes reduce urges to smoke more than combination NRT, and that dual use (smoking tobacco and using a nicotine vape) is associated with reduced smoking and higher chances of quitting smoking altogether later on. Patterns of e-Cigarette Use and Smoking Cessation Outcomes: Secondary Analysis of a Large Randomised Controlled Trial to Inform Clinical Advice

Update: June 2025
On page 12 we have included information on the NRT products that are now licensed for assisting people to stop vaping.

Date of last review: June 2025

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