New Study: Vaping Beats Traditional Smoking Cessation Products
Do you know you need to quit smoking but have just not managed to find a stop-smoking therapy that worked for you? Even though vaping with nicotine won’t help you beat the addiction to nicotine, NPR reported upon a large study that demonstrated that vaping with e-cigarettes beat out such nicotine replacement products as nicotine patches, gum, and mints.
A British study followed 900 smokers for a year and found that twice as many people managed to stay away from cigarettes when they vaped as did with more typical nicotine replacement products. If you’ve tried to quit smoking with typical therapies and failed, perhaps you should consider giving vaping a chance.
Why Did the British Study Vaping as Smoking-Cessation Therapy?
Peter Hajek serves Queen Mary University of London as a public health researcher, and he and colleagues conducted this study. They had heard plenty of stories about people who managed to quit or at least, reduce smoking via vaping. At the same time, Hajek knew that doctors would only suggest stop-smoking aids that were backed by scientific studies.
He was satisfied that his study showed how vaping technology can help to wean some people away from smoking by using what is generally considered a safer nicotine delivery system that still offers many of the same satisfaction as smoking.
In the study, after one year had passed:
- .About 10 percent managed to quit smoking with traditional nicotine replacement products
- About 18 percent stopped smoking completely by vaping.
- Typically, the success rate of people who try to quit smoking without assistance is only about three percent.
Hajek admitted that vaping still leaves people addicted to nicotine; however, it’s also possible to taper down by using increasingly lower percentages of nicotine in their juice. People who cannot entirely give up the habit can even buy 0-percent nicotine juice. He also says that their may be risks associated with inhaling even nicotine, but they are thought to be many times lower than inhaling cigarette smoke.
Vaping is becoming increasingly popular these days. Maybe it really does work!
Yeah, I know I need to quit smoking but I have not managed to find a stop-smoking therapy that worked. I’ve visited a therapist on countless occasions but after a while of trying, I’ll still find myself going back to it like nothing happened. Maybe I’ll switch to vaping and see if it helps since it still offers many of the same satisfaction as smoking.
I came across the study of how vaping technology can help to wean some people away from smoking by using a safer nicotine delivery. I was impressed by the results and I’m considering suggesting this to my clients when we have tried other methods without success.
In all this, vaping still leaves people addicted to nicotine so what’s the point exactly. I personally think they should work on quitting smoking entirely for so many health reasons they may likely encounter sometime in the future!
Very good point, I must agree. It will be effective using increasingly lower percentages of nicotine in the juice which is many times lower than inhaling cigarette smoke. It’s a better idea if you ask me.
My brother and I have tried to quit smoking with typical therapies and failed miserably. We have been given a lot of options but nothing seems to be working. Maybe we will do a little more research and see if we can consider giving vaping a chance.
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