MedPage Today (12/28, Gever) reports government survey data indicate that “among daily smokers followed for up to 5 years – all reporting at study enrollment that they intended to keep smoking and that they weren’t using e-cigarettes – 28% of those who started daily e-cigarette use then discontinued regular cigarettes…compared with a 5.8% quit rate…for those who never used nicotine vaping products.” According to the findings, published in JAMA Network Open, “a similar pattern was seen for the outcome of stopping daily cigarette smoking…with some 46% of those who took up e-cigarettes becoming intermittent smokers, versus 10% of smokers who avoided e-cigarette use during follow-up.”
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