{"id":929108,"date":"2026-10-11T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/929108\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:56:09","slug":"why-some-experts-are-recommending-vapes-to-quit-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/929108\/","title":{"rendered":"Why some experts are recommending vapes to quit smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"APJARD24QVFSHBD7K2Q4XBZER4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Despite what you might have heard about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/2026\/07\/14\/are-cigarettes-cool-again-cultural-investigation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smoking making a comeback,<\/a> so far the numbers suggest that fewer people are lighting up than in the past: About 11.6 percent of people in the United States smoked in 2022, down from 22.5 percent in 2002. Still, smoking remains a leading cause of preventable death worldwide, and it is notoriously one of the most difficult habits to break. A group of international experts recently argued that electronic cigarettes, or vapes, may be an underused tool for quitting conventional tobacco cigarettes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite what you might have heard about smoking making a comeback, so far the numbers suggest that fewer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84],"class_list":["post-929108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}