The inventor of 'biohacking' has spoken about two easily accessible ways you can quit vaping as the UK government looks to bring in an expensive tax on the products.
Disposable vapes will be banned in England after Sir Keir Starmer revealed the measure as a way to combat widespread use by children and the environmental impact they have with products being single-use.
And now, alongside banning smoking for all future generations and those born before 2009, a first-of-its-kind vaping tax is being introduced.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, confirmed the news in her Budget on Wednesday (30 October) with costs now going up for those who use refillable vaping products.
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The tax is pretty high and will more than double the cost of some products, with a £2.20 charge on every 10ml of refillable vaping liquid.
It means 10ml bottles, which can be as cheap as £1, will now cost a starting price of £3.20. Those who stock up with 50ml bottles can be expected to pay an extra £11 on top of the current prices they pay.
"We want to discourage non-smokers and young people from taking up vaping," HM Treasury said in a statement, while confirming the tax will be introduced from 1 October, 2026.
Given the costs associated with smoking and now vaping, many will be looking to give up the products for good.
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Dave Asprey, an Instagram lifestyle influencer and 'father of biohacking', recently took to social media with his best tips on giving up vaping.
Asprey - who claims to have solved the reason why we wake up before 5am and can't get back to sleep - has famously spent more than $2 million on trying to reverse his biological clock.
Asprey says: "Did you start vaping? Maybe even thinking it was better than smoking? Well the research is in and vaping causes damage to your lung and shrinks organs in your body in a way that's really not good for you.
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"So yes, you should quit. But a lot of have a very difficult time quitting, especially younger people who maybe started without knowing any better. So what do you do?
"There are nicotine replacement products. There is an argument for low dose nicotine being good for you - but not the amount you're getting from vaping.
"So one option is to get nicotine patches. Put that on and throw away your vape.
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"Your body will not crave nicotine and you can slowly shrink the size of the patch over time. The other one is you can get a nicotine spray."
Either way, nicotine products - including patches and sprays but also the likes of gums and lozenges - are a tried and tested way for people trying to give up smoking and, now, vaping.
"Nicotine patches come in different shapes and sizes. You put one nicotine patch on your skin in the morning and leave it in place all day. It releases nicotine throughout the day which is absorbed through your skin," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says.
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"The patch can be used daily by itself to control withdrawal symptoms, or it may be used with nicotine gum or lozenge which are taken as needed for strong cravings."
Where Asprey says vaping 'shrinks organs', it is likely that he is referring to research sowing that high doses of nicotine restricts the blood vessels in your body and can shrink them. When this happens, less blood is getting in to your skin.
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Tom Earnshaw