This is pretty good. I especially like the part where the author admits that the study done in March wasn't a good study. Definitely worth a read: Evidence builds that e-cigarettes help smokers quit - Health & wellness - The Boston Globe
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I think as more studies roll in they're all going to show that ecigs are better for quitting than any other method. I can't help feeling that way- I've tried every other method and it's the only onw that's worked.
Good article.
Good article.
It's about time people start writing about the benefits of e cigs. As long as you get a good device and liquids that you enjoy, they are 100% effective.
Back in 2009 I bought my first Smoking Everywhere e cig. It was a terrible device and although it helped me quit it wasn't totally effective. I bought a few other devices like a 510 and a few h16's. They were much better, but the fact that I had to order everything online made it a pain and I gave up for a couple years and went back to analogs. Last year I discovered that you can buy e cigs and juices at B&M's which have been sprouting up everywhere. Since then I have been all e cig and have not touched an analog since.
Back in 2009 I bought my first Smoking Everywhere e cig. It was a terrible device and although it helped me quit it wasn't totally effective. I bought a few other devices like a 510 and a few h16's. They were much better, but the fact that I had to order everything online made it a pain and I gave up for a couple years and went back to analogs. Last year I discovered that you can buy e cigs and juices at B&M's which have been sprouting up everywhere. Since then I have been all e cig and have not touched an analog since.
I agree with every single thing you said. For a while, I considered myself a serial quitter. I only smoked for seven years, and I never should have started (of course). Quitting is hard. E-cigs make such a difference. I know I'd still be smoking without them, for sure.
The problem is not the lack of good result studies. The problem is they are boring to most and hard to Sensationalize. Therfor they are overlooked or voted down in show planning meetings.
Reporters don want to report Facts. They want to be recognized and that takes getting attention.
The news has become a game of political support and sensationalist sell outs.
Reporters don want to report Facts. They want to be recognized and that takes getting attention.
The news has become a game of political support and sensationalist sell outs.
Evidence builds that e-cigarettes help smokers quit - Health & wellness - The Boston Globe
Some of you may recall what this very same reporter did after the excreble Grana et al. (Popov and Ling) JAMA Internal Medicine letter came out in March. That was the "study" that created a huge "e-cigs don't help smokers quit" media storm: New Study on Electronic Cigarettes by UCSF Researchers is Not Only Bogus Science, But is Also Dishonest
Some of you may recall that Deborah Kotz revised her original article about that study to basically dismiss Siegel's objection (to the effect that it only looked at "ever-vapers," and didn't analyze smokers who wanted to quit). Yours Truly dissected her rewrite in a post some time ago.
To say it was infuriating is an understatement - she just blew right past his point by characterizing his arguments as "fighting words," and then went on to repeat her earlier conclusion.
To my utter astonishment, her mind seems to have changed.
(And yes, she could've done what a lot of sleazeball or just plain slipshod reports have done, and that was to juxtapose these results with the idiotic "review" of 83 studies that Grana, Benowitz and Glantz just published in Circulation. Although there are only 5 junk cessation studies in that review, many media outlets have falsely claimed that there were 83, by conflating the two numbers. I personally think that's no accident in many of those cases - we are simply dealing with liars.)
This shows to go ya that there are actually a few honest - or at least persuadeable - health reporters at major US newspapers. Even (I might add) liberal ones.
This also further supports SJ's excellent suggestion that crowd funding a similar toolkit study in the US would be extremely helpful.
Some of you may recall what this very same reporter did after the excreble Grana et al. (Popov and Ling) JAMA Internal Medicine letter came out in March. That was the "study" that created a huge "e-cigs don't help smokers quit" media storm: New Study on Electronic Cigarettes by UCSF Researchers is Not Only Bogus Science, But is Also Dishonest
Some of you may recall that Deborah Kotz revised her original article about that study to basically dismiss Siegel's objection (to the effect that it only looked at "ever-vapers," and didn't analyze smokers who wanted to quit). Yours Truly dissected her rewrite in a post some time ago.
To say it was infuriating is an understatement - she just blew right past his point by characterizing his arguments as "fighting words," and then went on to repeat her earlier conclusion.
To my utter astonishment, her mind seems to have changed.
(And yes, she could've done what a lot of sleazeball or just plain slipshod reports have done, and that was to juxtapose these results with the idiotic "review" of 83 studies that Grana, Benowitz and Glantz just published in Circulation. Although there are only 5 junk cessation studies in that review, many media outlets have falsely claimed that there were 83, by conflating the two numbers. I personally think that's no accident in many of those cases - we are simply dealing with liars.)
This shows to go ya that there are actually a few honest - or at least persuadeable - health reporters at major US newspapers. Even (I might add) liberal ones.
This also further supports SJ's excellent suggestion that crowd funding a similar toolkit study in the US would be extremely helpful.
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I still wouldn't call her an 'ally', but this story is more 'objective reporting' than her others and that helps. Perhaps she realized what her job actually entails. If so, she's miles above the gov't stenographers known as the major media.
I changed the thread title to quaify the word "ally" with "possible" (we both had the same thought apparently).
But the Boston Globe is "major media" in my book. I don't know what else you want as far as daily papers go ... WaPo or the times?
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I'd include Boston Globe as part of the lapdog media.
Just to be clear:
ABCCBSNBCMSLSDCNNNYTWAPOLAT and when they do 'history' the History Channel
West study is available now -
abstract: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.12623/abstract
and: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.12623/pdf
analysis by Siegel: http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/05/new-population-based-study-reports-that.html
abstract: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.12623/abstract
and: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.12623/pdf
analysis by Siegel: http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/05/new-population-based-study-reports-that.html
The Baltimore Sun! (OK, not major. But it's a real city...)
Really excellent, positive coverage. Also Baltimore City Paper, which is a typical little city paper, and a few others.
Growing use of e-cigarettes draws attention of entrepreneurs, lawmakers - Baltimore Sun
E-cigarette stores ignite in Catonsville - baltimoresun.com
Smoking, no. Vaping, maybe. - Page 2 - Baltimore Sun
Nic Fit - News and Features - Baltimore City Paper
They even share a healthy interest in products beyiond cigalikes: E-cigarettes [Pictures] - baltimoresun.com (hit gallery)
Fair and balanced, even: Attorney General writes letter to e-cigarette companies questioning marketing to youth - Baltimore Sun
Md is an interesting state - no one would call the hard headed, hard working, blue-collar Dem base here 'elitist', or 'sheeple', either. Not gonna get away with much nannying here, those people live entirely on bacon, pizza, ribs, butter-soaked crab and beer. And they smoke. The city is fierce and dangerous in places but also a really terrific and culturally fascinating place.
My favorite blue, blue state. And I'm a vegetarian (except for crab). Live and let live, go Ravens.
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I tried to comment but I'm not a Boston Globe subscriber (I subscribe to the San Jose Mercury News) and the majority of the 6 comments were ignorant and need answers.
Boston/Mass people PLEASE comment.
I did share.
Boston/Mass people PLEASE comment.
I did share.
Serial quitter. I quit so many times in my 43 years of smoking that I gave up trying. I even laughed at the suggestion that I should spend the money on e cigs, but I got talked into it.
For me I just had to finally get angry enough at myself. 43 years...that's impressive! Congrats!
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