{"id":609135,"date":"2026-08-30T10:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/609135\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T10:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:32:08","slug":"nicotine-vapes-are-60-more-effective-at-helping-people-quit-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/609135\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicotine vapes are 60% more effective at helping people quit smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicotine vapes are 60 per cent more effective at helping people quit smoking, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Irish vapers are calling on the Government to stop it&#8217;s planned ban on flavoured e-cigarettes which is before the Seanad.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners are warning the move could drive adult users back to cigarettes or towards illegal products.<\/p>\n<p>The research revealed 10 in 100 people quit successfully with vapes compared to just six in 100 using other methods.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Heffernan, of Respect Vapers says more than 300 thousand people have stopped smoking because of vaping:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicotine vapes are 60 per cent more effective at helping people quit smoking, according to a new study.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,130263],"class_list":["post-609135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-quit-smoking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}