RACGP updates smoking cessation guidance as vaping crackdown begins
Professor Nick Zwar recommended GPs prescribe vaping devices that met TGA standards.
Patients using nicotine vaping products should be prescribed devices with closed systems that cannot be refilled instead of open-system devices, according to provisional guidance from the RACGP.
The certainty of evidence for recommending the use of e-cigarettes as a second-line smoking cessation aid has also been upgraded from ‘low’ to ‘moderate’ following a 2022 Cochrane review of 78 studies.
