MedPage Today (7/14, Phend ) reports, “Vaping improved smoking cessation rates better than nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) among socioeconomically disadvantaged adults, a randomized trial from Australia showed.” Investigators found that “breath test-verified continuous smoking abstinence after 6 months nearly tripled with use of vaporized nicotine products compared with NRT during a quit attempt, with rates of 28.4% compared with 9.6%, a significant difference that Bayesian analysis suggested was 99% certain for superiority.” Additionally, “vaping was…better across subanalyses by age, sex, nicotine dependence, and mental illness and resulted in fewer patient-reported adverse events.” The findings were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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