Not only a topic for many on New Years: smoking cessation.
American researchers have investigated whether the path to non-smokers is via the e-cigarette.
They cost money, are harmful to health and annoy many people: cigarettes, cigarillos or even cigars. Those who want to break the habit of the vice have often tried various methods. There would be the today-to-morning quit, various non-smoking programs from health insurers or via health app to weaning hypnosis. So far have you relapsed again and again?
Are you toying with the idea of slowly saying goodbye to the real cigarette with the help of the e-cigarette?
Scientists from the School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at the University of California in San Diego have now examined whether this makes sense in a study.
The focus of the research was
how often e-cigarette smokers have relapsed
- that is, have
resorted
to the conventional cigarette again.
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Quitting smoking with e-cigarettes: what researchers think of it
Could it really be that the e-cigarette could help you quit smoking? No, according to the US scientists. For their study, they interviewed over 13,500 smokers, 9.4 of whom had recently quit smoking. Almost a quarter of them had switched to e-cigarettes.
"The switch to any tobacco product, including e-cigarettes was associated with a 8.5-percent increase in relapse next year linked"
, it says on the part of researchers, whose work in the art portal
Jama
was released.
22.8 percent of subjects who recently quit smoking had switched to e-cigarettes, with 17.6 percent using them on a daily basis. According to the study, a total of 37.1 percent used a non-cigarette tobacco product (such as a nicotine patch) and 62.9 percent opted for cold withdrawal without a substitute product.
From the latter group, at least 50.5 percent of people remained smoke-free one year after quitting smoking.
Among those who tried to
quit smoking with the help
of e-cigarettes, it was 41.6 percent, including
Express.de
informed.
The US researchers concluded that “switching to any tobacco product is associated with a higher rate of relapse than not smoking”.
The researchers went on to say: "This large, nationally representative US study does not support the hypothesis that switching to e-cigarettes prevents a relapse into cigarette smoking".
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