E-cigarettes might help smokers quit, study says (British Medical Journal)

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The rate of people quitting smoking in the U.S. has remained steady at about 4.5 per cent for years. It jumped to 5.6 per cent in 2014-2015, representing about 350,000 fewer smokers. It was the first recorded rise in the smoking cessation rate in 15 years.
While national anti-smoking campaigns likely helped, the results show e-cigarette use also played an important role, said lead author Shu-Hong Zhu of the University of California, San Diego.

E-cigarettes might help smokers quit, study says

"We just don't know if moving to e-cigarettes is good enough to reduce the harm," said Aruni Bhatnagar, director of the American Heart Association's tobacco Research and Addiction Center.

Vomit.
You should. Use your brain.

E-cigarette use and associated changes in population smoking cessation: evidence from US current population surveys

E-cigarette use and associated changes in population smoking cessation: evidence from US current population surveys | The BMJ

It’s been 10 years since electronic cigarettes hit the shelves in a big way - and since there controversy has reigned about their health effects - are they less unhealthy than smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes, and will they increase nicotine dependence?

Its to that last point that new research, published on BMJ.com is looking into - specifically, do e-cigarettes help people quit tobacco?

Professor Shu-Hong Zhu, Director of the Center for Research & Intervention in Tobacco Control at the university of California San Diego joins us to discuss what effect ecigarettes have had, at a population level, on smoking cessation rates.

Read the open access research:
www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3262

 

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"Others warned that the long-term side effects of e-cigarettes are unknown."

Others reminded the warners that the long-term side effects of cigarettes are well known. And that the long term side effects of vaping are either none or minimal.