A long term study carried out by researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, has found that adult heavy smokers with no plans to quit are more likely to do so when they switch to vaping regularly.
Published recently in JAMA Network Open, the study titled, “Association of e-Cigarette Use With Discontinuation of Cigarette Smoking Among Adult Smokers Who Were Initially Never Planning to Quit,” used data from 2014 to 2019 as part of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, a long-term study looking into tobacco use behaviour and related health patterns in the US.
Findings from Wave 1 of the study released in 2016, had already put to rest certain misconceptions about vaping such as the infamous Gateway Theory. When the researchers focused their analysis on a select group of 1,600 smokers who had no plans to quit smoking and were not using e-cigarettes when the study began, they found that those who went on to vape daily were the ones who managed to quit.
Diane Caruana – VapingPost – 2022-07-25
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