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== Information on Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR), Nicotine, safer alternatives to smoking combustible cigarettes ==
== Information on Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR), Nicotine, safer alternatives to smoking combustible cigarettes ==
We aim to provide information for Advocates, PolicyMakers, LawMakers, Interested members of the public (remember you are the 'public' in public health), Scientists and Researchers, Health Workers and Medical Doctors indeed anyone who would like reliable information. Most of the time that links directly to the original science, we aim to provide useful summaries/comment where possible as a guide, we encourage you to read the full paper if you wish.  
We aim to provide information for Advocates, PolicyMakers, LawMakers, Interested members of the public (remember you are the 'public' in public health), Scientists and Researchers, Health Workers and Medical Doctors indeed anyone who would like reliable information. Most of the time that links directly to the original science, we aim to provide useful summaries/comment where possible as a guide, we encourage you to read the full paper if you wish.  
== [[Call To Action: The World Health Organization is planning a global assault on vaping|New Nicotine Alliance Call To Action: The World Health Organization is planning a global assault on vaping]] ==
Today (19th March 2023), we are calling on our supporters, consumers of reduced risk nicotine products, and others who understand the benefits of harm reduction '''to act on significant threats''' planned by the World Health Organization (WHO) later this year.
These include:
* A ban on all open system vaping products
* A ban of all flavours except tobacco
* A ban on nicotine salts in vaping products
* Regulating products so that they are all exactly the same and restrict delivery of nicotine
* Demanding that countries around the world treat vaping and heated tobacco products the same as combustible tobacco
* Taxation at the same rate as cigarettes, banning use where smoking is prohibited, large graphic health warnings, plain packaging, and a ban on all advertising, promotion and sponsorship


== Advocacy Live Events ==
== Advocacy Live Events ==

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Information on Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR), Nicotine, safer alternatives to smoking combustible cigarettes

We aim to provide information for Advocates, PolicyMakers, LawMakers, Interested members of the public (remember you are the 'public' in public health), Scientists and Researchers, Health Workers and Medical Doctors indeed anyone who would like reliable information. Most of the time that links directly to the original science, we aim to provide useful summaries/comment where possible as a guide, we encourage you to read the full paper if you wish.

New Nicotine Alliance Call To Action: The World Health Organization is planning a global assault on vaping

Today (19th March 2023), we are calling on our supporters, consumers of reduced risk nicotine products, and others who understand the benefits of harm reduction to act on significant threats planned by the World Health Organization (WHO) later this year.

These include:

  • A ban on all open system vaping products
  • A ban of all flavours except tobacco
  • A ban on nicotine salts in vaping products
  • Regulating products so that they are all exactly the same and restrict delivery of nicotine
  • Demanding that countries around the world treat vaping and heated tobacco products the same as combustible tobacco
  • Taxation at the same rate as cigarettes, banning use where smoking is prohibited, large graphic health warnings, plain packaging, and a ban on all advertising, promotion and sponsorship

Advocacy Live Events

If you know of an online meeting, weekly conference call or advocacy chat by anyone that has to do with THR, safer nicotine, please can you let Nancy from CAPHRA know? Please use this Google Form to submit your response.

When there is information to display our Advocacy Live Events page will have details

How to explore:

See the List of all pages, or use the Search page (Tip: add ~ to the end of e.g. colour~ to find alternate (international) spellings) or the search box in the top right corner.
There is also a list of FAQ Questions that may be interesting. And a lists of FAQ questions from various other organizations,
There is this list of categories Guide to Main Categories, find your local vaping organisation List of orgs

What is this?

This Wiki has been assembled by a team of keen volunteers, free of funding from any source. If you would like to contribute to the expansion and evolution of this resource, please see the how to contribute section below. Remember: respected sources only.

We are looking for volunteers to translate the wiki into different languages, please sign up for an account if you can help. We can be contacted at the email below, please include your username so that you can be added to the list of translators. We regret this must be done manually to prevent spam bots inserting advertising in translation pages.

A few important questions are answered here without having to access the main menu:

Safe or Safer? Briefly, nothing is absolutely safe, but as the products continually evolve they become safer. Nicotine Replacement Therapy products such as patches, gums, sprays, and inhalers are substantially less than 1% as risky as smoking. Non-pharmaceutical nicotine products can also pose a fraction of the risk of smoking, e.g. Snus (approximately 1%), E-Cigarettes (less than 5%), and Heat not Burn (approximately 10%). These estimates become ever more refined as increasing numbers of research studies are published. Beyond the debate about nicotine tied to smoking and products used to quit smoking, science is also looking at potential therapeutic benefits of nicotine.

Links here for debunking myths Myth Busting provides links to info on anti nicotine claims and how to correct them.

Quit Aid The most frequently-used method to quit smoking is 'cold turkey', i.e. unaided, but this has a greater failure rate than perhaps all others. It is very difficult to attribute a precise figure towards popular quit methods such as NRT, Varenicline (various trade names), Allen Carr, hypnotherapy, snus etc., as the usual medical standard of proof, the Randomised Controlled Trial, doesn't really cover certain options such as e-cigarettes adequately (as choices of all various combinations of flavour choice, nicotine strength, and device type are impossible to include). However, a recent RCT demonstrated that e-cigarettes were twice as effective as NRT for smoking cessation (probably an underestimate of real world results). Like who knew the Pez dispenser was a quit smoking aid?

Health Improvements Virtually everyone who used a safer nicotine product to quit smoking completely experiences profound improvement in their health, e.g. improved breathing and cardiovascular benefits. This is possibly due to totally removing the previous inhalation of carbon monoxide from the tobacco cigarette. Asthma and COPD patients have shown great recovery, see Health Improvements

Commentary from respected sources Many governments around the world recognise that Safer Nicotine Products offer benefits, along with respected organisations such as Public Health England, Royal College of Physicians, Cochrane, and NASEM (US). See Also: Commentary from experts

Cost Savings Vast savings are experienced; this is quite underappreciated by some members of the general public. It would be a gross underestimate to state that a 50% reduction in spending would be experienced by anyone who completely switches. For some users who make their own liquids and manufacture their own coils, costs can be less than 1% of what they would have incurred when smoking.

Our DIY page lists details and has links to important safety information, particularly for those new to making their own liquid. It also provides basic information on safe operation of vaping devices.

Don't forget the list of List of all pages if you can't find what you are looking for, try the Search page

How to Contribute

Find your local vaping group or organisation here: List of Tobacco Harm Reduction and Vaping Groups, worldwide

Please sign up for an account, you will need to verify your email address, you can then start editing right away. Tips and tricks here. If you use a screen reader and e.g. captchas are a problem, please email us and we will accommodate where possible.

We are looking for volunteers to translate the wiki into different languages, please sign up for an account, if you can help.

If you already have an account, you should be able to promote yourself to a translator, click the link in the sidebar menu or TranslatorSignup. To do this requires a verified email address, that you have completed some (currently 3) edits elsewhere on the site, and your account is not brand new. If you have difficulty or would like to be promoted manually, please email us at info@safernicotine.wiki

We will accept documents if you prefer to write them in word (.doc(x)), or open document format (.odf) or PDF (.pdf). please include you name for attribution, unless you wish to remain anonymous. Please let you know any info you would like included for attribution etc. emails may be sent to the address above. We apologize, but it may take some time to add submitted information. Note: the email address may be monitored by several people please include a ref. to any previous communication, so we can find it. Thanks!

looking for something to edit? Try Category:Stubs for pages that need your input!

Or click any red link to create that page! Try searching and if there is no page already, you can create one from the search results page.

Get in touch

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