Stoptober – are you up for the challenge, and could you do with a little extra helping hand?

Each year the NHS runs a heavily publicised campaign to encourage Britain’s 8 million smokers to quit their habit. The goal is to inspire people to give up the ciggies for just 28 days, which they claim makes you 5 times more likely to quit for good. There’s no doubting that Stoptober has been a massive awareness success; thousands of people take part each year and many lives have been changed. But for everyone who hits their target many more fall short, and that’s where a little extra helping hand could come in useful.

STOPTOBERGiving up a habit as ingrained as smoking should never be considered easy, and underestimating the commitment it will take is why so many find that they just don’t have the strength to break free of tobacco’s hold on them. The NHS offers numerous group and one-to-one support options, medications and ways of giving you the nicotine hit without the tobacco toxins through sprays, gum, patches and inhalers. All of these are perfectly legitimate ways to help you through Stoptober, but we have one more for you – one that over 2 million people in the UK are now using to help them to quit, one that studies have shown could give you up to a 60% greater chance of quitting success than all the NHS options together – e-cigarettes.

Vaping is smoking e-liquids in an electronic cigarette. Distilled water, with flavouring and varying specified strengths of nicotine, is heated in the e-cigarette unit causing vapour to be produced, inhaled and expelled in the familiar smoking action. You decide how much nicotine you wish to include, and you decide the speed with which you choose to reduce your nicotine concentration, substituting vaping for smoking and eventually simply vaping the nicotine-free e-liquids, of which there are many. It’s a breath of fresh (and often fruit scented) air for many, and is revolutionising the way people quit smoking.

So if you are one of the 115,000 plus smokers who have pledged to take part in Stoptober this year (or if you are simply looking to try your best to reduce your habit for financial or health reasons, or just because someone close to you is nagging you to do so!), why not boost your chances of quitting for good by trying an e-cigarette instead.

To support Stoptober, and to help you to achieve your quitting goals, we’re offering 10% off everything, absolutely everything, in our online store throughout October when you use the discount code QUIT. Let us help you to find the strength to quit this Stoptober. Good luck to you all.