Research paper: Long-term e-cigarette use and smoking cessation: a longitudinal study with US popula

[Painter_]

Long-term e-cigarette use and smoking cessation: a longitudinal study with US population | Tobacco Control

Results At 2-year follow-up, 43.7% of baseline dual users were still using e-cigarettes. Long-term e-cigarette users had a higher quit attempt rate than short-term or non-users (72.6% vs 53.8% and 45.5%, respectively), and a higher cessation rate (42.4% vs 14.2% and 15.6%, respectively). The difference in cessation rate between long-term users and non-users remained significant after adjusting for baseline variables, OR=4.1 (95% CI 1.5 to 11.4) as did the difference between long-term users and short-term users, OR=4.8 (95% CI 1.6 to 13.9). The difference in cessation rate between short-term users and non-users was not significant, OR=0.9 (95% CI 0.5 to 1.4). Among those making a quit attempt, use of e-cigarettes as a cessation aid surpassed that of FDA-approved pharmacotherapy.

Conclusions Short-term e-cigarette use was not associated with a lower rate of smoking cessation. Long-term use of e-cigarettes was associated with a higher rate of quitting smoking.

Finally, a research team got it right...

 

[sofarsogood]

Long-term e-cigarette use and smoking cessation: a longitudinal study with US population | Tobacco Control


Finally, a research team got it right...

So dual users are more likely to stop smoking than people who don't vape? My advice has been, if you never stop vaping eventually you will stop smoking.

 

[Katya]

Thanks, Painter.

 

[Rossum]

Interesting, but I find the terms and methodology a bit strange. If I had been included in this survey, I would have been in the "Used Cigarettes only" category in 2012, without any intention to quit. At follow up, I would have been in the "Used E-Cigarettes", and thus a "short term" e-cig user despite the fact that I completely quit smoking in under a week in 2013 and have vaped daily ever since?

But the bottom line is:

• Dual use of e-cigarettes and cigarettes was not associated with a lower smoking cessation rate.
• Long-term e-cigarette use was associated with a higher smoking cessation rate.

 

[Katya]

Never give up, never surrender.

 

[bobwho77]

Interesting, but I find the terms and methodology a bit strange. If I had been included in this survey, I would have been in the "Used Cigarettes only" category in 2012, without any intention to quit. At follow up, I would have been in the "Used E-Cigarettes", and thus a "short term" e-cig user despite the fact that I completely quit smoking in under a week in 2013 and have vaped daily ever since?

But the bottom line is:

Much like you, I quit smoking "Accidentally" a few days after I got my first mod.