Use of e-cigarettes as smoking cessation aids to provide useful information to guide policy on e-cigarettes

Melis Selamoglu is currently a PhD candidate in her final year, working within the Department of General Practice at Monash University.

Her doctoral research focuses on the perceptions and prescribing intentions of GPs towards the use of e-cigarettes as smoking cessation aids to provide useful information to guide policy on e-cigarettes and contribute to guideline development internationally and nationally on the potential role and place of e-cigarettes as smoking cessation treatments. Her research is a mixed methods study and involves both qualitative and quantitative data collection with Australian, Turkish and UK GPs.

Since the commencement of her PhD, Melis has had 3 publications as primary author, with 2 currently under review and has presented her findings from Australian, Turkish and UK GPs at multiple national and international conferences – from the UK to New Zealand.

Melis worked with the MonREN Network to collect data from Australian GPs. The input received from our MonREN Network was important in providing her with the bases of reaching out and recruiting GPs to aid her with data collection in her studies. She was highly satisfied with the number of GPs that had completed her survey and those that were willing to be interviewed for her qualitative study.

Learn more about Melis’ research:

• ‘Why do we have to be the gatekeepers?’ Australian general practitioners’ knowledge, attitudes and prescribing intentions on e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid.
• General practitioners’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices surrounding the prescription of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation: a mixed methods systematic review.
• GP knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices surrounding the prescription of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation: a protocol for a mixed-method systematic review.