Re:E-Cigarettes, as Used, Aren’t Helping Smokers Quit, Study...
by zerebubuth on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @09:30AM
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Congratulations! For me, it's 353 days, and I attribute this success to having vaped for a year prior to that, and being able to gradually reduce the nicotine levels without reducing the frequency of vaping.
I think it's unfortunate that the conclusion of the paper (that all smokers are 28% less likely to quit if they also vape) will be confused with the questions that doctors and policy-makers will be interested in: whether smokers who want to quit are more or less likely to quit with the aid of e-cigarettes, and whether smokers who use e-cigarettes are more or less likely to die of cancer.
It seems like there's a huge, irrational split between pro-smokers and anti-smokers, and it's a big shame that what really matters might get lost in the argument: helping people to not die early.
No, it's not for everyone and it won't help everyone quit. But, as it says right in the article, no business or brand markets it as a smoke cessation device. Only end users are making those claims. Furthermore, it's not clarified on the page as to whether or not people who continued vaping were considered to not have quit smoking.