Italian study finds 50% smoking cessation in e-cig users

[Nate760]

E-cigs help quit smoking, Italian researchers say - West

The sample size is small (34 individuals described as "resistant smokers"), and the study duration only four months, but at the end only 26% of subjects had failed to achieve total or partial cessation. And, given the rather short time window involved, it's reasonable to assume that at least some of the 24% who were dual using at the end of the study did or will go on to achieve total cessation.

 

[Stosh]

A 50% success rate is great, and the 26% dual use users likely just hadn't found their ADV flavor or nicotine level they needed for success.

 

[Nate760]

A 50% success rate is great,

It's great in and of itself, but it also happens to be a success rate one full order of magnitude better than that of any pharmaceutical NRT product.

 

[ykalon]

The irony in it being a Italian study, the Italian Gov want to introduce a 60% tax on e-liquid, and a substantial increase in hardware cost....

 

[Stosh]

The irony in it being a Italian study, the Italian Gov want to introduce a 60% tax on e-liquid, and a substantial increase in hardware cost....

What irony, they are just thinking about the pension money, medical costs saved if the old folk simply die off.....