“Electronic cigarettes could increase the number of people who stop smoking compared to nicotine replacement therapy—such as chewing gum and patches—according to research involving the University of East Anglia. A new Cochrane review published today also shows that e-cigs help people stop more than just quitting smoking without any treatment. This updated review now includes 50 studies, an increase of 35 studies since it was last published in 2016. Twenty-four of these are uncontrolled studies, but their results support the data from the randomized controlled trials.”
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E-cigs better than gum or patches to help people quit smoking
“Newly updated Cochrane evidence published today in the Cochrane Library finds that electronic cigarettes containing nicotine could increase the number of people who stop smoking compared to nicotine replacement therapy. Unlike chewing gum and patches, they mimic the experience of cigarette smoking as they are hand-held and generate a smoke-like vapour. This helps to recreate sensations similar to smoking without exposing users or other people to smoke from conventional cigarettes, and can be used to provide smokers with nicotine.”
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH: Electronic cigarettes can help people quit smoking
“Vapes containing nicotine are more effective in helping people quit smoking than patches or gum, and safer than cigarettes, although more evidence is needed on their potential long-term impacts. “There is now evidence that electronic cigarettes with nicotine are likely to increase the chances of quitting successfully compared to nicotine gum or patches,” said Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, an expert at the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group who co-led the review. John Britton, a respiratory medicine professor at Nottingham University, said the review was “comprehensive” and gave “definitive confirmation that electronic cigarettes offer smokers an effective means of quitting”.”
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Vapes more effective to quit smoking than gum or patch, review finds
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