Vaping & Nicotine
Quitting Vaping in Australia: Two Sessions Here, and the Free Help That Outranks Both
There has never been a clinical trial of hypnosis for quitting vaping. Not a weak one, not a small one. A free text-message programme has two trials and 4,091 people behind it, so the phone number goes above the two sessions here, and the law before either of them.
Two sessions, and the free help that beats them
There has never been a clinical trial of hypnosis for quitting vaping — not one. Quitline, which is free, has a hundred and four trials behind it. Read that part first; these two are for what you do at the time of day the craving lands.
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Chosen by Ernest McLeodClinical hypnotherapist. An Adelaide practice, seeing clients across Australia by video. Fourteen years in practice. About Ernest →
I earn a commission if you buy either session here. It doesn’t change what you pay, and the three things I put first cost nothing.
Any of this look like yours?
- A quit date set on Sunday night, withdrawn by Monday lunchtime
- It lives on the bedside table now, not in a drawer
- Three different answers online about what a pharmacy can sell you
- You took it up to get off cigarettes, and that worked
- Four pages promising a percentage, and you believed none of them
Two of those and the table is the fastest thing here. If none is your week, neither session is.
Before anything on this page is for sale: Quitline is 13 7848Its counsellors support people quitting vaping as well as smoking. The counselling is free — a call you make costs a standard call, a callback you ask for costs you nothing. My QuitBuddy, from the federal Department of Health, and Pave, from the Cancer Institute NSW, are free apps doing the same job. All three have more evidence behind them than anything I could sell you.
Has hypnosis for vaping ever actually been tested?
No. A title search of Europe PMC for hypnosis or hypnotherapy alongside vaping returns nothing. Cochrane’s living review of vaping cessation screened every randomised trial published to 1 July 2025 and includes fifteen; not one is a hypnosis trial. Nor is there a trial of a hypnosis recording on its own for smoking or nicotine. Every hypnosis trial Cochrane found put a therapist in a room with a person.
That smoking review is the nearest relevant evidence, and it is thin: 14 studies, 1,926 participants, low to very low certainty. Word for word, “there is insufficient evidence to determine whether hypnotherapy is more effective for smoking cessation than other forms of behavioural support or unassisted quitting. If a benefit is present, current evidence suggests the benefit is small at most.” One trial of the fourteen was low risk of bias, ten high, and the search closed in July 2018.
The vaping review did find something that works, and it costs nothing: text-message support for 13 to 24 year olds, risk ratio 1.32, interval 1.19 to 1.47, two trials, 4,091 participants. Telephone counselling for tobacco has 104 trials and 111,653 participants at moderate certainty.
Of nine Australian quit-smoking hypnotherapy sites I checked on 4 September 2026, seven published a percentage for their own results, from 60 to 100. None mentioned that review or pointed a reader to Quitline. The best twelve-month figure in the literature is 15.0 per cent.
The comparison this page is built aroundA free text-message programme: 4,091 participants. Free telephone counselling: 111,653, at moderate certainty. A hypnosis audio for vaping: zero trials and zero participants.
So which of these is actually yours?
Most rows below do not end in a purchase. People arrive here with several different questions, and only two have a recording as the answer.
| If this is your version of it… | Start with | Who it is wrong for |
|---|---|---|
| You have decided to stop and nobody has talked it through | Quitline, 13 7848, and ask for a callback | Nobody. Nothing below comes near it |
| What you want to know is what a pharmacy can sell you here | The law section, then a pharmacist | Nobody. A counter conversation, not a purchase |
| You vape on a supervised plan to get off cigarettes | Whoever prescribed or supplied it | Nothing here changes a timetable you were given |
| A date in the diary, and the device is the problem | Quit Vaping | Wrong if the free help is untouched, or under 18 |
| The craving is the argument, and the hand moves before you do | Nicotine Addiction Treatment | Wrong if you want dependence treated |
| Cigarettes are still in this, or came back when the vape went | The quit-smoking course | US$175, about A$244. Hear the cheap preview first |
| You are under 18, or buying for someone who is | A GP, and Quitline, which supports young people | Nobody here should sell you anything |
What can a pharmacy legally sell you, and does your state change it?
Supply has been pharmacy-only since 1 July 2024, and much of what is online still describes the shop that used to sell you one. Health.gov.au is blunt: no other business — tobacconist, vape shop, convenience store — may lawfully sell any vape or vape product, zero-nicotine ones included.
Since 1 October 2024 an adult of 18 or over can buy a therapeutic vape of 20 mg/mL or less from a pharmacy without a prescription, after a pharmacist consultation. Anything stronger needs one at any age, and under 18 needs one regardless. One month’s supply per calendar month, flavours limited to mint, menthol and tobacco. Then your state sits on top, which is where the confusion starts.
- Tasmania and Western Australia: a prescription even for adults.
- Victoria and South Australia: none for adults, and no supply to under-18s at all.
- ACT, NSW, the Northern Territory and Queensland: adults without a prescription, under-18s by prescription only.
Checked 4 September 2026Confirm the current rules at health.gov.au/vaping. This has moved several times in two years, and the states move independently.
One thing here belongs to your prescriber rather than to me. Guidance for prescribers in Australian Prescriber, December 2024, suggests coming off a therapeutic vape after about twelve weeks, twelve months at the outside, moving to registered nicotine replacement with behavioural support. If yours has said otherwise, they know your history.
Is vaping still climbing in Australia?
No, though most of what you read still says so. The AIHW’s National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2025, released on 20 August 2026, puts current vaping among 18 to 24 year olds at 14.0 per cent, down from 20.6, and 14 to 17 year olds at 6.4. What sits under that matters more: occasional use collapsed while daily use held steady, so around six in ten of those still vaping do it daily. Fewer users, more dependent ones.
What can you do this week that costs nothing?
- Book a Quitline callback on 13 7848
Not a hotline and not a recorded message: multi-session behavioural counselling, tailored to you, with 104 trials and 111,653 participants behind the approach at moderate certainty. Queensland Health describes it as covering smoking and vaping both. Ask for the callback and it costs you nothing. There is an Aboriginal Quitline, and interpreters.
- Put My QuitBuddy and Pave on the phone the device lives beside
My QuitBuddy is the federal Department of Health app and covers vaping. Pave comes from the Cancer Institute NSW: free, ad-free, built for quitting vaping and co-designed with 14 to 24 year olds — co-designed, not trial-tested. They cover the days between counselling.
- See a GP, and say which drug you are quitting
The distinction is money. For smoking, patches are the only form of nicotine replacement the PBS subsidises, and varenicline and bupropion SR are listed through Streamlined Authority; since January 2026 a general prescription costs up to $25.00, a concessional one $7.70. For vaping, the same products are off-label, private script and not subsidised. The PBS also requires subsidised medication to be paired with counselling, which is the funding rules agreeing with step one.
- Let one craving finish without you
Pick a predictable one and do nothing about it. A craving is not a steady state and not an instruction: it climbs, tops out within a few minutes and falls away on its own, and answering it at the peak teaches it to keep arriving on schedule. Change the wording too — not “I need one” but “there is the thought that I need one”. No percentage attached; the published figures come from smoking research.
So what would a recording actually be working on?
Split it in two, because the halves take different help. One half is the drug: what nicotine does to a receptor, and what it does when you take it away. Nothing played through headphones reaches that, and a page implying otherwise is selling a chemistry it does not have. The other half is what you built around it — the hand that reaches before you have decided, the ten moments in a day paired with it for years. That is learned behaviour rather than withdrawal, and it is what a session aims at.
Whether it moves that half in you nobody can say, because nobody has run the study. I have worked with hundreds of smokers over fourteen years and have a clear sense of which parts shift. That is experience, not evidence, and treating the first as the second is most of what is wrong here.
The two sessions, and what they cost
Each is US$18.95, about A$27 at 1.3967 checked on 3 September 2026, an instant MP3 inside a ninety-day refund window, narrated by Roger Elliott. The publisher calls the second one Nicotine Addiction Treatment. That is their title, not a claim of mine: a recording is not treatment for nicotine dependence. Treatment is the number at the top of this page, and a GP.
Quit Vaping
For stopping, when there is a date. The longer of the two, aimed at the device and the tension under the reach.
Nicotine Addiction Treatment
For the craving rather than the device. The only session here with a free preview.
If cigarettes rather than a vape are the problem, the ten-session quit-smoking course is the other door. Be clear-eyed: US$175, about A$244, nine times either session here, and no preview. The US$18.95 session with a free sample is the cheap way to find out whether this reaches you at all.
Figures the publisher reports about itself, which I cannot audit: trading since 1998, upwards of 24,000 people trained in person, 613 purchases of the vaping session and 553 of the nicotine one.
Three-figure numbers, and I would rather print them than hide them. A count tells you a title sells, not that it works.
Why pay for anything when the free help is better evidenced?
Notice what the free option here is: not a video somebody uploaded, but a trained counsellor on a telephone and two government apps. What it asks of you is a conversation with a stranger, in their hours, about something plenty of people feel faintly stupid about. That asking is where people stall for months.
What the money buys is not better hypnosis; nothing shows a paid recording hypnotises better than a free one. It buys a fixed half hour you can put where you want in the day — the evening before the morning that is hard — with nobody needing to be available, nothing to explain, and a publisher carrying the refund if it does nothing. Convenience and privacy, in other words, not effect. It sits underneath the phone call, and one of the two has a free preview, so the first test costs nothing.
Who are both of these sessions wrong for?
A file is fair to test while your life holds its shape and something better-evidenced is running. Once neither is true, buying one is how people lose half a year to the weaker option.
- You have not rung Quitline, and neither app is on your phone.
- You are under 18, or buying for someone who is.
- Your mood has dropped since you started cutting down.
- You have had thoughts of harming yourself, or of not wanting to be here.
- Twenty-seven dollars is money you would notice.
Any of those and what you want is an appointment, not a download. Somebody you sit with hears what is not working and changes tack; a recording plays the same words in the same order whether they reach you or not.
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Common questions about quitting vaping
Has hypnosis ever been tested for quitting vaping?
No. A title search of Europe PMC for hypnosis alongside vaping returns nothing, and Cochrane’s living review of vaping-cessation trials screened everything published to July 2025 without finding one. For smoking, Cochrane pooled 14 trials and 1,926 people and found insufficient evidence either way.
Which of the two sessions here is mine?
By what you are aiming at. If there is a quit date and the device is the problem, that is Quit Vaping, at just under thirty minutes. If the craving is the argument, that is the nicotine session, shorter and with a free preview. Play that first.
Can I still buy a vape in Australia, and does my state change it?
Only from a pharmacy. Since July 2024 no other business may sell any vape, zero-nicotine ones included. Adults over 18 can buy up to 20 mg/mL after a pharmacist consultation, one month at a time. Tasmania and Western Australia require a prescription even for adults. Checked 4 September 2026.
Is Quitline any use if I vape rather than smoke?
Yes. Queensland Health describes Quitline as a service for people quitting tobacco smoking and vaping, and Quit Victoria says its counsellors can support young people to quit vaping. The counselling is free, a callback you request costs you nothing, and interpreters are available. The number is 13 7848.
I vape to stay off cigarettes. Should I be stopping?
Ask whoever supervises it. Guidance published for prescribers suggests coming off a therapeutic vape after about twelve weeks, with twelve months as the maximum and a move to registered nicotine replacement alongside behavioural support. That is written for clinicians, and nothing here is a reason to change what you were told.
What if a session does nothing for me?
Send the publisher your order number inside 90 days and the money comes back in full, no reason required, one refund per customer. Nobody can tell in advance whether a recording suits a particular person, and here there is no trial to consult either.
Related categories
- Quit SmokingIf cigarettes are still in this. Ten sessions, about A$244, evidence before price.
- AnxietyIf the reaching is about the day rather than the hour.
Ernest McLeod — clinical hypnotherapist. An Adelaide practice, seeing clients across Australia by video. Fourteen years in practice.
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This is the only category on the site with no evidence at all behind what it lists, and the real decision was whether to list it at all. Putting the phone number and the law above the sale is what made it publishable. More →
Whatever you decide about buying, do two free things this week: book the callback on 13 7848 for a day you will actually answer, and let a pharmacist settle the legal question rather than a forum.
Ninety days to change your mind. Email the publisher your order number and they’ll refund you in full, one refund per customer. Neither the length of that window nor the answer to a claim is mine to decide.
These are self-help audio sessions, not medical treatment, a diagnosis, or a substitute for professional care. No clinical trial of hypnosis for vaping cessation exists, and no quitting outcome is claimed for either recording. Neither is a treatment for nicotine dependence, whatever a product title says. Quitline is 13 7848 and its counselling is free. Quit medicines are decisions for your doctor, and nothing here is a reason to change a prescription or a supervised quit plan. Australian vaping rules are federal and state and change often: checked 4 September 2026, confirm at health.gov.au/vaping. Never listen at the wheel.