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Recording vaping status

Tairāwhiti | Lakes | Taranaki | Waikato | Clinical | 22/07/2025

Although vaping is not smoking, it is a health risk and should be recorded in clinical records.

Recording vaping is additional to recording smoking status. Patients who have stopped smoking and are currently vaping exclusively can be coded as ex-smoking.

Recording a person as ex-vaping has value, especially if the person is using vaping to quit smoking and will then quit vaping.

The following SNOMED CT codes and Read codes, found on the Manatū Hauora Ministry of Health's website, should be used to record vaping status.

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