Vaping
Vaping is harmful to health and usage is on the rise among young people.
Vaping can cause:
- Irritation of the mouth and airways
- Persistent coughing
- Nausea and vomiting
- Chest pain and palpitations
- Poisoning and seizures from inhaling too much nicotine or ingestion of e-liquid
- Burns or injury caused by e-cigarette overheating or exploding
- Respiratory problems and permanent lung damage
- Harm to the developing adolescent brain
- Nicotine dependence
- Talk to your GP
- Download the free My QuitBuddy app onto your smart device, to help you get, and stay, smoke and vape-free.
- Call the NSW Quitline 13 7848 (13 QUIT) to speak to a trained Quitline counsellor. This includes counsellors that can speak community languages through the Translating and Interpreting Service.
- Call the NSW Aboriginal Quitline 13 7848 (13 QUIT) to access Aboriginal counsellors who provide culturally safe and individually tailored counselling support for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.
- Visit the iCanQuit website for information, resources, tips and tools to help you quit and stay quit.
- NSW Health Vaping toolkit - 'Do you know what you're vaping?'
- Cancer Institute NSW 'Every vape is a hit to your health'
- Australian Government - Dept of Health and Aged Care Vaping the Facts
- Your Room - Vaping - what we know.
- NSW Health - Vaping resources for health professionals
- Cancer Council NSW - Generation Vape
- Sydney Children's Hospital Network - KidsQuit: e-cigarette program
- ICanQuit - translated vaping information.
- NSW Health - The facts about vaping - translated resources.