quit-smoking-archive

New series in Vejpkollen: Can Snickar-Ronny go smoke-free?

Carpenter Ronny Nilsson is 47 and has been smoking since middle school. Throughout his life he has made "half-hearted attempts to quit". Vejpkollen's reporter provided him with a simple starter kit to see if...

US report: Vaping was the most effective smoking cessation tool

A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that e-cigarettes are both the most common and most effective method of smoking cessation among US adults.

OECD report: Undulating trends in vejpning in Europe

With stricter regulations for both cigarettes and smokeless nicotine products underway in different parts of the EU, the use of vejp products continues to increase in European countries. Statistics from the OECD show how e-cigarettes...

How Sweden's largest e-cig chain crashed - in just a few hours

Sweden's largest e-cig chain, with 7 physical stores in central Sweden and thousands of customers, is no more. All but two Cigge stores closed with immediate effect on 14 January 2025.

The biochemist who opened a nicotine shop in Soho

Vape and white snuff are big business in London. And in the heart of the city's most central area, Soho, is the 'Soho Vapes' shop where actors, musicians and film people queue with restaurant workers and tourists to...

New Zealand distributes free vejpkit - "Key role in reducing smoking"

Smokers in New Zealand will have access to free e-cigarettes and e-liquid to quit smoking. This is announced by the New Zealand government as new figures point to the role of vejpningen...

Store manager: "We need to educate vejpers away from disposable models"

Christian "Cristo" El-Hage may be a new store manager at Ecigg City, but he's quite an old hand at vejpgam. He sticks his neck out and says he'd rather see disposable vejps disappear...

"2024 was the year the winds changed - vejpning and snus are now part of the solution"

Disposable vapes in every other convenience store. White snuff is out-competing smoking among young people and doctors are beating the drum about the risks of smoke-free nicotine use. Despite the storm clouds on the horizon, Karl-Åke...

Curiosity drove Victoria to vejpningen - and life-changing changes

Victoria Gillberg describes herself as curious. So curious, in fact, that when she found vejpningen and took a deep dive - it led all the way to becoming smoke-free, a job and a...

A vejping pioneer with a thousand irons in the fire

Steve Tasker was one of the first, maybe even the very first, to sell e-cigs in Sweden. In 2009 he opened his shop in Stockholm and is filled to the brim with...

Reduced snus tax - but not for all cans - "Manufacturers do things very differently"

The snus tax was reduced on 1 November. But what about the prices in the shops? Very differently, it turns out. Although many manufacturers lowered their purchase price immediately, others have chosen to...

Electronic cigarettes popular in the electric city

In the industrial city that electrified the country, former snuffers and smokers are switching to the battery-powered vapour. Mathias Norman steers the ship in Västerås' now only vejpshop. And where it should feel familiar to step ...