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Introduction Young adults are attempting to quit vaping, with many accessing smoking cessation programs with a lack of reported efficacy, highlighting the need for targeted vaping cessation support. Young people report seeing health professionals as potential sources of support in the quitting process. Additionally, the current changing regulatory landscape around vaping in Australia potentially increases numbers of those seeking health professional help for cessation. However, limited research exists on health professionals’ views and preparedness to assist young adults with their vaping cessation; thus, this exploratory study aimed to gain insights into their readiness to support young adults in quitting vaping. Methods Data were gathered via eight co-design workshops (two groups each of two hours duration and six semi-structured interviews of 1 hour duration), facilitated online with 12 health professionals. Data underwent thematic analysis. Results Health professionals expressed a need for more information in supporting young adults to quit vaping, with them presently relying on informal pathways of support and information for their practice. Participants reported a lack of evidence-based guidelines and a reluctance to prescribe nicotine vapes, expressing conflict with the changing regulatory landscape in Australia. Conclusions Our findings identify a significant gap in health professional preparedness in supporting vaping cessation. Health professionals are working within a rapidly evolving regulatory environment and are feeling unprepared to address the widely spread issue of vaping, especially among young people. We demonstrate the critical need for guidelines and training of health professionals to enable them to better support young people in quitting vaping. Implications This qualitative study offers unique insights into the views and readiness of Australian health professionals to support young people to quit vaping, specifically in the context of recent regulatory reforms. The results highlight the need for evidence-based guidance and training for health professionals to inform their vaping cessation support practice.
Introduction Young adults are attempting to quit vaping, with many accessing smoking cessation programs with a lack of reported efficacy, highlighting the need for targeted vaping cessation support. Young people report seeing health professionals as potential sources of support in the quitting process. Additionally, the current changing regulatory landscape around vaping in Australia potentially increases numbers of those seeking health professional help for cessation. However, limited research exists on health professionals’ views and preparedness to assist young adults with their vaping cessation; thus, this exploratory study aimed to gain insights into their readiness to support young adults in quitting vaping. Methods Data were gathered via eight co-design workshops (two groups each of two hours duration and six semi-structured interviews of 1 hour duration), facilitated online with 12 health professionals. Data underwent thematic analysis. Results Health professionals expressed a need for more information in supporting young adults to quit vaping, with them presently relying on informal pathways of support and information for their practice. Participants reported a lack of evidence-based guidelines and a reluctance to prescribe nicotine vapes, expressing conflict with the changing regulatory landscape in Australia. Conclusions Our findings identify a significant gap in health professional preparedness in supporting vaping cessation. Health professionals are working within a rapidly evolving regulatory environment and are feeling unprepared to address the widely spread issue of vaping, especially among young people. We demonstrate the critical need for guidelines and training of health professionals to enable them to better support young people in quitting vaping. Implications This qualitative study offers unique insights into the views and readiness of Australian health professionals to support young people to quit vaping, specifically in the context of recent regulatory reforms. The results highlight the need for evidence-based guidance and training for health professionals to inform their vaping cessation support practice.
Regulation of nicotine vaping products (NVPs) is an ongoing challenge across the world. Australia currently has a globally unique NVP regulatory model that requires a medical prescription to purchase and use NVPs, with further restrictions in progress in response to evidence of widespread illicit NVP sales. Against this background, we examine the new measures and consider a modification of the model to pharmacist-only supply as an option for increasing access to NVPs for smoking cessation, while retaining health practitioner oversight of supply. We describe the strengths and challenges of implementing a pharmacist-only NVP supply option in Australia. Compared with the current prescription-only model, pharmacist-only supply could increase access to a lower exposure nicotine product in a highly regulated therapeutic context while addressing youth access and purchasing for non-therapeutic use, reduce demand for illicit products for smoking cessation purposes and avoid overburdening medical services with consultations to obtain NVP prescriptions. This approach can also accommodate current government goals such as eliminating NVP advertising, youth-focused branding and supply from grocery and convenience stores.
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