Dr David Lim and Professor Nicholas Zwar discuss the role e-cigarettes can play in therapy.
Description:
- E-cigarettes have been shown to benefit and help smokers who have failed the usual forms of therapy
- Behavioural support plus adequate and appropriate nicotine replacement therapy alone, or in combination with pharmacotherapy, can be effective
- Combination nicotine replacement therapy (patch and oral form) and using the oral, more rapid acting form during vulnerable periods of the day is an important tool
- From October 2021, e-cigarettes can only be prescribed by accredited doctors. This is a world first initiative of the RACGP and the TGA
Host: Dr David Lim, GP
Guest: Professor Nicholas Zwar, executive dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University
Total time: 41 mins
