“Dr Nancy Rigotti works at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She writes in the journal of the American Medical Association (AMA) that “the accumulating evidence from clinical trials suggests that e-cigarettes will likely turn out to be safe and effective tools to aid smoking cessation”. The AMA has been outspoken in its opposition to vaping. It is vital the AMA’s members are educated in facts and evidence rather than emotive bluster. Referring to the New Zealand trial, Rigotti points out that the results showed a 2% success rate for traditional NRT products in keeping smokers off tobacco – whereas vaping products achieved a success rate of 7%. Pointing to a third study, Rigotti tells AMA members that counselling alone achieved a 9.9% success quit rate after 6 months yet counselling plus vaping achieved 17.2%. The argument for vaping’s efficacy is being proven time after time. “The Cochrane review concluded that ‘moderate certainty evidence’ supports the effectiveness of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to aid cessation when compared with non-nicotine e-cigarettes and NRT,” she adds. The success shown in studies, she argues, is probably not reflective of the real world achievements as vape products have developed to be better than the versions currently used in research. One study, she notes, had to drastically alter its methodology due to the old products they planned to use going out of stock midway through the trial.”
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