Using e-cigarettes and other tobacco products to keep from relapsing to cigarettes doesn’t appear to be effective, according to a new longitudinal study of nearly 13,000 smokers in the United States.
“This is the first study to report on whether cigarette smokers can switch to e-cigarettes without relapsing to cigarette smoking,” said study author John Pierce, a professor of family medicine and public health at the UC San Diego Institute for Public Health in the Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Sciences.
“Quitting is the most important thing a smoker can do to improve their health,” he said in a statement attached to the study, “but the evidence indicates that switching to e-cigarettes made it less likely, not more likely, to stay off of cigarettes.”
The study did not look at the use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) designed to help people stop smoking, Pierce told CNN. Those therapies include patches, gum and lozenges that contain limited amounts of nicotine.
“This paper is not focused on quit attempts,” Pierce said. “It is focused on people who appear to have been successful at quitting cigarettes and whether those who switched to an alternative nicotine source — this is rarely long-term use of NRT — do better than those who are abstinent from nicotine.”
Sandee LaMotte – CNN – 2021-10-19.
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