A US study of 1,600 smokers who did not initially use e-cigarettes and had no plans to ever quit smoking found using e-cigs daily increased the chances of them quitting the smokes by eight times, compared with smokers who didn’t use e-cigs at all.
The majority of published experiments analyzing whether electronic nicotine delivery products (e-cigarettes) can assist cigarette smokers stop have been limited to smokers who are planning to quit or have not taken smokers’ quit intentions into account.
However, a new analysis using data from the US nationally representative Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study looked at daily cigarette smokers who did not intend to quit smoking and discovered that subsequent daily use of e-cigarettes was positively associated with change in intentions to quit cigarette use.
A long-standing theory suggests that even taking the first step toward contemplating quitting smoking can have an impact on net cigarette cessation rates.
In this study, the researchers looked at whether the use of e-cigarettes was associated with cigarette quitting among adult daily cigarette users who did not intend to quit smoking and who did not use e-cigarettes at the time of the study.
Kamal Saini – Revyuh – 2021-12-28.
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