Study finds US and Canadian smoking cessation counselors are badly misinformed about vaping

[Bill Godshall]

Study finds US and Canadian smoking cessation counselors ignorant about vaping, finds:
- 97% were instructed to tell smokers that e-cigarettes are not approved by FDA,
- 74% were instructed to recommend FDA approved drugs instead of vaping,
- nearly 70% inaccurately believed vapor products don’t’ help people quit smoking,
- 71% inaccurately believed secondhand vapor aerosol is harmful (despite no evidence),
- 87% inaccurately believed vapor products are addictive (despite no evidence), and
- 87% believed e-cigs should banned by FDA, taxed, and that vaping should be banned.
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[nicnik]

Study finds US and Canadian smoking cessation counselors ignorant about vaping, finds:
- 97% were instructed to tell smokers that e-cigarettes are not approved by FDA,
- 74% were instructed to recommend FDA approved drugs instead of vaping,
- nearly 70% inaccurately believed vapor products don’t’ help people quit smoking,
- 71% inaccurately believed secondhand vapor aerosol is harmful (despite no evidence),
- 87% inaccurately believed vapor products are addictive (despite no evidence), and
- 87% believed e-cigs should banned by FDA, taxed, and that vaping should be banned.
Elsevier: Article Locator

- 91% believe what they tell smokers.
- 7% drink too much to know what they're told to say, and what they tell smokers.
- 2% are serial scam artists.

 

[Chasperk]

- 91% believe what they tell smokers.
- 7% drink too much to know what they're told to say, and what they tell smokers.
- 2% are serial scam artists.

I think the first and third need to be flipped. Most of the ones I've seen are quack scam artists.

 

[Lessifer]

Imagine that, when all of the "credible" sources like the FDA, CDC, ALA, ACS, etc. provide a unified message, what are people supposed to believe?

 

[VictorC]

Re: - 87% believed e-cigs should banned by FDA, taxed, and that vaping should be banned.

I am not surprised. Not just Big Pharmas are afraid to lose money.

Smoking cessation counsellors are also afraid to lose their steady and predictable income generated by returning patients who are trying to quit smoking by using traditional methods.
A steady revenue is mostly funded by the government in my country. Just a few programs available in one small city:
Canadian Cancer Society Smokers’ Helpline
Pharmacists’ Smoking Cessation Program
Family Health Teams’ (FHTs) Quit Smoking Programs
Heart Institute Quit Smoking Program
Nicotine Anonymous – Community Centre

If I would be an individual on the payroll in one the programs, I would fight e-cigs fiercely.

 

[nicnik]

If I would be an individual on the payroll in one the programs, I would fight e-cigs fiercely.

You sure you would? I wouldn't. Then again, I would never work for the anti-nicotine cult, and I figure you probably wouldn't either.

 

[nicnik]

I think the first and third need to be flipped. Most of the ones I've seen are quack scam artists.

You might be right. The numbers are preliminary. More thinking needed.

 

[VictorC]

Of course not. I am just thinking how many medical professionals, lawyers, scientists, insurance companies, public organizations, etc., are making a living off other people smoking and dying...They need either to keep a fight with an old evil alive or create a new one. Wouldn't be surprised to see "vaping cessation counselling programs" in the near future.

 

[nicnik]

"vaping cessation counselling programs"

Day one:
Admit you are powerless in the face of the propaganda machine, and begin Chantix regimen.
Day two:
Beg for forgiveness of your sins and take your Chantix.

 

[Woofer]

Most do as they are told...
Milgram experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[catlady60]

Day one:
Admit you are powerless in the face of the propaganda machine, and begin Chantix regimen.
Day two:
Beg for forgiveness of your sins and take your Chantix.

Day three: Take the gun out of your dresser drawer and blow yourself to kingdom come. There--one less smoker to worry about. /sarcasm

 

[skoony]

87% believed e-cigs should banned by FDA, taxed, and that vaping should be banned.

This is brilliant. Ban it and still tax it,then ban it again.
Folks if they can figure out how to do this we are all in trouble.

Mike

 

[bobwho77]

Day three: Take the gun out of your dresser drawer and blow yourself to kingdom come. There--one less smoker to worry about. /sarcasm

Don't forget to shoot the wife, and kids first

 

[nicnik]

Don't forget to shoot the wife, and kids first

Or be proactive and just tell Tobacco Control to go to hell.

 

[CarolT]

Of course not. I am just thinking how many medical professionals, lawyers, scientists, insurance companies, public organizations, etc., are making a living off other people smoking and dying...

Rubbish. People will continue to die even if they don't smoke. You must think they won't, or else that smokers die twice or something?

 

[VictorC]

Rubbish. People will continue to die even if they don't smoke. You must think they won't, or else that smokers die twice or something?

It's about living longer and less dependent on thousand of services/practitioners in the meantime.

 

[CarolT]

It's about living longer and less dependent on thousand of services/practitioners in the meantime.

Living longer is the best way to accumulate infirmities.