Ben and Dr. Nicholas Chadi discuss why this is a problem and what we can do to potentially help these teenagers.

Nicholas Chadi is a paediatrician specialized in adolescent and addiction medicine. He is a clinician-scientist and assistant professor of paediatrics at CHU Sainte-Justine and at the University of Montreal.

Often times there are deeper underlying issues and teenagers move to vaping to help them navigate this. However, vaping is not a sustainable way of moving forward through life and can often play a role in holding people back from their potential. Understanding this, Dr. Nicholas Chadi strives to provide better health care for vulnerable children and adolescents.

Nicholas has worked with marginalized communities in rural and urban Canada, South America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Passionate about medical research, journalism and health care policy, Nicholas combines his clinical duties with medical writing, policy and research work in the areas of youth substance use, mindfulness, mental health, gender identity, chronic illness and social paediatrics.

If you want to connect with Dr. Nicholas Chadi, you can find him through his website:

https://nicholaschadi.com/

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00:00 Intro

00:10 How can someone quit vaping?

01:29 How anti-addiction tools can help us

02:33 Hypothetical: Advice for those addicted

04:03 Why is vaping bad?

07:24 What is vaping?

08:24 Is vaping worse than smoking?

10:20 Smoking vs. Vaping

11:02 How to stop before you start

13:01 How does vaping hold us back from success?

16:00 What are nicotine gums?

17:22 Schools’ role in helping these teens

20:03 Important information about vaping

23:11 How to support someone who is addicted to vaping

24:31 How to help stop underage vaping

25:56 Vaping: boys vs. Girls

26:35 Outro