A Review of Seigel's Survey plus a Poll at WebMD

[cuseguy]

Kudos to Traver for this find. Jonathan Foulds reviewed Dr. Seigel's survey on WebMD and there is a poll posted, as well as ability to comment. You do need to register.

"electronic cigarette study": Smoking Cessation Community - Support Group@

So far the poll results are:
Poll Results

If you have tried to use an e-cigarette to stop smoking at least a month ago, are have you smoked any cigarettes or used any tobacco in the past 7 days?

• Yes, I smoked a cigarette or used tobacco in the past week
  
  
  
  5% (1)
• No, I have not smoked or used tobacco in the past week
  
  
  
  95% (18)

Bump the OP, it takes a little bit to find the link and some of us are ADHD!

 

[Beez]

I voted, but could not get the site to allow a reply (even though I registered in order to vote). I will keep trying!

 

[Delilah718]

Voted but couldn't reply :-( even after registering.

 

[Beez]

Pianoguy, my friend, I think I just wrote another dissertation. I hope you are satisfied LOL

 

[FreakyStylie]

Voted and replied. Thanks for posting!

 

[rothenbj]

The count is now 123-3, I don't feel so lonely now!

 

[Turnkeys]

Voted but couldn't reply :-( even after registering.

You might check your spam folder for the confirmation e-mail. Or try a different browser.

 

[afrazier5]

Voted here - excellent results so far but kind of what I expected!

 

[CES]

voted and commented. Up to 98% now

 

[Traver]

WebMD allows registered users to start what they call a Smoking Cessation Community:
http://forums.webmd.com/3/smoking-cessation-exchange/forum/?addDiscussion@22.vM35aLxWroG@
I was wondering if would be worthwhile to start one of our own about alternative methods to quit tobacco? Seems like it would if we can keep it near the top in popularity. They also allow you to do polls. Any other opinions?

 

[fallon74]

Thanks for posting I voted.

 

[wv2win]

bump: we need more ECF members to take the few minutes to join WebMD (takes 30 seconds) and vote in this poll and leave a response.

 

[Aunt Lala]

Ok... done...

 

[dk2]

Voted however the question was biased, I didn't start vaping to quit smoking tobacco, I started vaping as an alternative to smoking tobacco, just so happened that I stopped smoking tobacco and changed over to 100 percent vaping.

 

[lo thatch]

Done.......with comment

 

[Stosh]

Bump this up, with a side note, I found logging into WebMD on different days it seems to allow you to vote more than once......I'm a bad boy, stuffing the ballot box.

 

[Crumpet]

Piss on that. I voted, but gave up registering after all 15 of the screen names I tried either weren't available or contained characters not permitted........and of course it didn't tell me which characters those were.

 

[FreakyStylie]

Just use w543w5gtwe54tgw as your name. (smash face on keyboard, LOL) You probably won't go back there again, right?

 

[Traver]

Just use w543w5gtwe54tgw as your name. (smash face on keyboard, LOL) You probably won't go back there again, right?

I think it may be worth maintaining a presence on WebMD. i don't know how many viewers the smoking cessation community part gets but on a site that gets 50 million viewers a month it could be substantial. Since they allow any registered user to start one we should take advantage of it.

 

[wv2win]

I think it may be worth maintaining a presence on WebMD. i don't know how many viewers the smoking cessation community part gets but on a site that gets 50 million viewers a month it could be substantial. Since they allow any registered user to start one we should take advantage of it.

Agreed. I've been a member for about a year and check in on the Smoking Cessation section about every month. When someone comes on and asks about using a PV to stop smoking, the WebMd staff trots out the FDA warning and pretty much scares people away from it. With this latest post/poll by their Phd part time expert, maybe that will start to change. We need to keep an eye on this web site. However, it is my understanding that WebMD gets funding from Big Pharm which could kill any steps toward logical thinking on the topic of vaping.