Electronic Cigarettes don’t help smokers quit, a new study finds

Experts rail against electronics vaping devices; you may have seen ads and stories on the TV or the internet, they often say e-cigarettes are not harmful or an effective way to quit smoking. But new research suggests that E-cigarettes and other vaping devices haven’t helped many U.S smokers quit.

On Monday, researchers of George State of University found that U.S smokers who didn’t use vaping devices were more than twice as likely to quit as those who did. Scott Weaver, assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, said that “These products have not fulfilled the public health promotion of helping people in the U.S quit smoking.” However, some paper found that e-cigarettes help smokers to quit traditional cigarettes, while others have seen that they don’t. Researchers cited several reasons for finding their finding, including that smokers might not get nicotine from vaping to switch from traditional cigarettes completely.

According to Dr. Erikson “There is so much misinformation that confused people, whether vaping is more or less harmful than traditional cigarettes, and the confusion occurs due to lack of consensus in the scientific research community what the side effects and benefits of e-cigarettes.” And we need to give the guidance to smokers and tell them how to use these products and that they need to quit smoking and ignore dual use.

Robert West, the co-author of the study and professor of health psychology at the University of London, said that “We estimate for every 10,000 people who haven’t used an e-cigarette to quit, approximately 580 people would have quit who wouldn’t have quit otherwise”. But he adds that there is no clear evidence that these devices were promoting more people to quit smoking”. The bottom line is that any smokers who are still using traditional cigarettes should not try e-cigarettes, though these vaping devices can be an essential tool in the war on smoking. At the same time, the percentage of smokers who quit smoking without using e-cigarettes tools is high.