The Public Health Authority of England has called on doctors to prescribe electronic cigarettes as a treatment.
The government wants to include electronic cigarettes within the British health care system's prescription over the next few years because of its success in helping many quit.
The report, which included an independent review of the latest data, indicated that at least 20,000 people quit smoking each year with the help of electronic cigarettes.
The report also states that electronic cigarettes are less harmful than traditional tobacco cigarettes by up to 95 percent.
The Authority also wants hospitals to be able to sell electronic cigarettes and have space for their use.
This could extend to allowing electronic cigarettes to be used in special rooms for long-term patients, according to the FDA.
The Commission also encouraged employers to allocate premises for use by staff.
So far, UK authorities have not adopted any electronic cigarettes as a means of helping to quit smoking.
The Public Health Authority called for an "easier way" for manufacturers to obtain medical licenses for electronic cigarettes.
"We believe that anything that the Medicines and Health Care Regulatory Authority can do to make it easier for manufacturers will be beneficial," said John Newton, director of improvement and development at the FDA.
Newton said there was "irrefutable evidence" that electronic cigarettes were safer than conventional smoking and "pose little danger to those who inhale non-smokers" in what is known as secondhand smoke.
"It is very worrying that smokers still have a superficial understanding of the damage caused by smoking," said Anne McNeill, a professor of tobacco addiction at King's College in London.
"When people smoke tobacco cigarettes they inhale a lethal mix of about 7,000 of the components of smoke, 70 of which cause cancer, and compared to tobacco, the harmful ingredients are either nonexistent or very low in electronic cigarettes," she said.
Research shows that less than 1 percent of young people who have never smoked use electronic cigarettes regularly and that the proportion of young people who quit smoking is decreasing at an "encouraging" rate.