French Health: 400,000 people quit using e-cigs

[WhiteHighlights]

Another interesting piece of good news:

While health experts and legislators have yet to make up their mind about the efficacy of electronic cigarettes as smoking cessation aids, the public seems to have already decided. According to the France’s 2014 INPES Health Barometer, around 400,000 people have managed to quit smoking with the help of electronic cigarettes.

French Health Barometer Reveals 400,000 People Have Quit Smoking Using E-Cigarettes | E-Cigarette Reviews and Rankings

 

[Kent C]

Good, but a wider study is needed. France has about the same number of smokers as the US (slightly less - wiki) and Bill's surveys show @3-4 million Americans have used ecigs to quit. I'm guessing a wider survey in France would show multiple times of the 400,000 quitting.

 

[Moonbogg]

None of this positive news ever makes it to the mainstream, does it?

 

[Frenchfry1942]

I put it on my facebook.

 

[twgbonehead]

What's particularly interesting is of those who didn't quit, but are dual users, they lowered their cigarette consumption by an average of 8.9 cigarettes/day, a HUGE decrease!

 

[Bill Godshall]

There are no weblinks or citations to verify anything stated in that story (at that e-cig marketing weblink).

And all of the weblinks on that site reference other articles (and e-cig ads) on that same site.

Perhaps the National Institute of Prevention and Education for Health's 2014 INPES Health Barometer found that 400,000 vapers quit smoking, but that website's purpose is to sell and advertise e-cigs.

 

[caramel]

Are you looking for something like this?

Inpes - Actualités 2014 - Cigarette électronique : premières données issues du Baromètre Santé Inpes 2014

 

[Bill Godshall]

Precisely,

Thanks for posting the original link, which is easy to translate.

Unfortunately, there is NO mention on that webpage of the 2014 INPES Health Barometer that 400,000 French quit smoking by switching to e-cigs.

 

[Bill Godshall]

Despite not speaking French, I found the quote on the top of page 10 at
http://www.inpes.sante.fr/70000/dp/15/dp150224-def.pdf

En conclusion, on peut donc considérer que 0,9% des 15-75 ans, soit environ 400 000 personnes,
constitue une première approximation de la proportion de Français ayant réussi à arrêter de fumer, au
moins temporairement, grâce à la cigarette électronique.

Which, according to Google Translate, says:

In conclusion, we can consider that 0.9% of 15-75 years, about 400 000 people,
is a first approximation to the proportion of French who successfully quit smoking in
least temporarily, thanks to the electronic cigarette.

 

[caramel]

It's in the PDF, first sentence on page 10:

http://www.inpes.sante.fr/70000/dp/15/dp150224-def.pdf

 

[caramel]

Hehe we posted at same time.... the PDF is more detailed, lots of interesting stuff there including charts.