Vaping: Does it help people who smoke traditional cigarettes kick the habit?
Vaping: Does it help people who smoke traditional cigarettes kick the habit?
There is no conclusive scientific evidence that e-cigarettes are a safe and effective method to reduce the use of traditional cigarettes at the population level.
In a recent review of effective smoking cessation treatments, the US Preventive Services Task Force found that there is insufficient evidence to recommend the use of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation tool. Additional research is underway with the more varied analysis studies that were recently published (called a “meta-analysis”). It found that adult smokers who use e-cigarettes are 28% more likely to quit smoking. We still see a number of individual testimonials expressing how e-cigarettes helped them to abandon traditional cigarettes.
The California Department of Public Health supports any and all efforts to quit traditional cigarettes. We know that the vast majority of people want to quit smoking, but they have a hard time quitting. As we know how difficult it is, whenever a person manages to completely quit cigarettes, we congratulate them. We know that the vast majority of people want to quit smoking, but they have a hard time quitting. As we know how difficult it is,
whenever a person manages to completely quit cigarettes, we congratulate them. We know that the vast majority of people want to quit smoking, but they have a hard time quitting. As we know how difficult it is, whenever a person manages to completely quit cigarettes, we congratulate them.
For this reason, many people ask us why we do not advise the use of electronic cigarettes as a way to quit smoking. There are several reasons why we do not endorse the e-cigarette as a smoking cessation device or aid:
E-cigarettes are not FDA-approved smoking cessation devices. Nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs) approved by the FDA undergo a rigorous approval process and clinical trials in animals and humans before they are made available to the public. In addition, there are regulations that determine manufacturing, labeling, packaging, and warning requirements.
The goal of the process is to ensure that the products are safe and effective. This does not apply to e-cigarettes and other devices that heat liquids with nicotine and are inhaled into the lungs. E-cigarette companies may go through the FDA process to have their products approved by the FDA as smoking cessation devices. However, to this day.
Some studies reveal that the use of electronic and traditional cigarettes during the smoking cessation process is counterproductive. While smokers may cut down on the number of cigarettes they use, many of them end up using both products simultaneously and never actually quit completely. This means that any potential health benefits are reduced and that the cardiovascular risks associated with smoking remain largely unchanged and continue to cause serious health problems for the individual. Also, e-cigarettes could prevent people from successfully overcoming their nicotine addiction.
in doubts and concerns about whether these products help people to quit smoking completely or if they increase the detrimental effect of smoking combustible products by discouraging smoking cessation, encouraging long-term duplicative use, and increasing tobacco use and nicotine addiction in the non-user population.
Addiction has 3 components: physical, psychological, and behavior. Nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs) were designed to help people with the physical aspect of addiction. Smoking cessation programs that address the psychological and behavioral aspects of addiction, combined with NRTs or other smoking cessation medications, are very effective in quitting the habit.
In fact, the American Lung Association's Freedom From Smoking program has a 60% effectiveness rate when combined with smoking cessation medications. NRTs were not designed for long-term use, which is different from the perception many people have of e-cigarette replacement. Many people incorporate e-cigarettes with no plans to quit. The long-term health risks of regular e-cigarette use as a replacement for traditional cigarettes are still unknown. In addition, people who only do this replacement continue without addressing the psychological and behavioral aspects of addiction to traditional cigarettes, even though they decrease their nicotine consumption.
Much of the debate about e-cigarettes focuses on what is called "harm reduction." Harm reduction refers to the idea that while e-cigarettes are known to pose health risks, those risks are lower than those of traditional cigarettes and therefore all harm is reduced. However, if you look at a broader “public health” picture that goes beyond helping people quit traditional cigarettes, there is real concern about teens and young adults starting an addiction to tobacco smoke. lifetime through e-cigarettes, especially since the long-term health risks are not yet known.
A growing body of evidence from longitudinal studies shows that teens and young adults who use e-cigarettes, vegan cigarettes, and smoking less dangerous substances in mini bongs are much more likely to become traditional cigarette smokers one year later. Against this background, the question is whether the damage is really being reduced if a new generation is becoming addicted to nicotine, a highly addicted neurotoxin with known health risks and if these young people end up becoming drug users. traditional cigarettes
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