Stop smoking, start vaping

A new book designed to educate smokers about vaping is so good it is recommended as required reading for regulators and health care providers too.

Words: Patrick Griffin

It is easy to see why Dr Colin Mendelsohn’s book ‘Stop Smoking Start Vaping – the healthy truth about vaping’ has been so highly praised.

It is a book designed to cut through the confusion, misinformation and bad science which has plagued the discussion about vaping for years.

‘Stop Smoking Start Vaping’ acts as a powerful antidote to the general anti-vaping bias which serves to keeps smokers addicted to deadly cigarettes.

Author Colin Mendelsohn is a smoking cessation expert who founded the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association.

It contains case studies of smokers who successfully quit with vaping, explains how it is different to smoking, tackles many myths about nicotine and has an entire chapter on the relative risks about smoking and vaping.

The book points out that there is ‘overwhelming scientific agreement that vaping is less harmful than smoking’ and then walks the reader through the evidence.

Written in plain English without complex jargon, there are ten chapters which explain everything a smoker needs to know to successfully make the switch.

This section covers everything from how devices work, how to choose e-liquid and how to vape safely.

It tackles, head on, some of the major vaping controversies, including the risk to young people, safety concerns, social justice and discusses common reasons that people oppose e-cigarettes.

For anyone who wants to learn the facts about vaping, this book should be required reading.

COLIN WAS THE FIRST DOCTOR IN AUSTRALIA TO RECOGNISE THE POTENTIAL FOR VAPING. HE STUDIED THE EVIDENCE AND BECAME A PASSIONATE ADVOCATE FOR VAPING.DR ALEX WODAK Director, Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association. THIS BOOK IS A MUST FOR ANY SMOKER WHO WANTS TO KNOW IF VAPING CAN HELP THEM QUIT. SENATOR HOLLIE HUGHES Chair of the Australian Senate Select Committee on Tobacco Harm Reduction. DR MENDELSOHN PROVIDES AN EXCELLENT REVIEW OF VAPING AND THE HARM REDUCTION DEBATE. THIS BOOK PROVIDES PRAGMATIC INFORMATION FOR THE SMOKER WHO IS THINKING ABOUT VAPING AS A WAY TO QUIT AND FOR THE VAPER WHO WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CURRENT STATE OF SCIENCE ON ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES. PROFESSOR NEAL BENOWITZ Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Centre for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California. THIS BOOK PROVIDES AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE FOR GPS TO ADVISE SMOKERS ON THE PROS AND CONS OF VAPING VERSUS SMOKING AND ON USING VAPING TO QUIT SMOKING. EMERITUS PROFESSOR WAYNE HALL Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research, University of Queensland. NEW BOOK BY COLIN MENDELSOHN IS A MASTERCLASS IN PUBLIC HEALTH PRAGMATISM, EXPERTISE, COMMUNICATION AND EMPATHY. PART ‘HOW TO’ AND PART ‘WHY TO’, COLIN SERVES UP PRACTICAL GUIDANCE, INSPIRING TESTIMONIES, SOLID SCIENCE AND A GUIDE TO THE CONTROVERSIES .CLIVE BATES Director, Counterfactual Consulting. THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ FOR ALL SMOKERS WHO WANT TO QUIT. IT COVERS THE FULL 360 DEGREES OF THE WORLD OF VAPING. CONSUMERS, POLICYMAKERS AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WILL FIND IT INSIGHTFUL. MANY WILL FINALLY UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF SWITCHING TO E-CIGARETTES AS A FAR LESS HARMFUL ALTERNATIVE TO SMOKING TOBACCO. PROFESSOR RICCARDO POLOSA Professor of Internal Medicine and Respiratory Physician, University of Catania, Italy.