The CBS News (1/15, Welch) website reports that a new study, “published online…in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, found that adult smokers who use e-cigarettes are actually 28 percent less likely to stop smoking cigarettes.” The study’s lead author wrote, “As currently being used, e-cigarettes are associated with significantly less quitting among smokers,” and the devices “should not be recommended as effective smoking cessation aids until there is evidence that, as promoted and used, they assist smoking cessation.”
HealthDay (1/15, Thompson) elaborates on the methods of the study, reporting that researchers “combined the results of 20 studies that had control groups of smokers not using e-cigarettes, comparing them to smokers who also use e-cigarettes to see which group quit tobacco more often.” They concluded that “the odds of quitting smoking were 28 percent lower in smokers who used e-cigarettes compared to those who did not.”
Related Links:
— “Study: E-cigarettes don’t help smokers quit,” Ashley welch, CBS News, January 14, 2016.