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E-Cigarettes Linked To Helping People Quit Smoking, Says Study (theverge.com)
According to a new study, electronic cigarettes help people trying to quit smoking. The Verge reports: For the study, published today in the journal BMJ, researchers analyzed survey data from over 160,000 people spanning almost 15 years. They found that smokers who used e-cigs tried to quit smoking more often and succeeded (for at least three months) more often than smokers who didn't use e-cigs. Overall, more people quit in the latest year that data was available -- the 2014 -- 15 year -- than in the 2010 -- 11 year. Today's study didn't address whether e-cigs are luring people who would otherwise be nonsmokers. But it did find that e-cigs do have a role in helping people quit. The researchers looked at several population surveys that cover the years 2001 to 2015. These surveys provided smoking-cessation rates, and the most recent survey, from 2014 to 2015, had information about e-cigarette usage. The results show that 65 percent of e-cigarette users had tried to quit smoking, versus 40 percent of people who smoked but didn't use e-cigs. About 8 percent of e-cig users succeeded in quitting for at least three months, compared to about 5 percent of non-users. Overall, the number of people who quit smoking increased by 1.1 percentage points in 2015 from 2011. This might not seem that impressive, but it still represents about 350,000 people.
In fact, it was shown that simply saying it was shown does not carry a lot of weight around here.
Hold my beer and watch this!
It's easy to quit, just have a heart attack. My dad had one 15 years ago at the age of 46 that scared him straight, he said he felt the reaper's scythe graze the top of his head. He hasn't touched any tobacco product since.
Too bad he won't live. But then again, who does?
My brush with death and heart attacks had no effect on my use of nicotine. The biggest problem was well-meaning people irritating the shit out of me through all their suggestions, based on their fear of death. Being a freethinker, I know that being not alive after I cease living is no different from not being alive before I was born. That's nothing to fear, so I don't.
Enjoying my time is important; prolonging it isn't.
" The smoker and the non-smoker are on an even footing if it's just a matter of annoyance, and complaining about smoking in a bar would be the equivalent about complaining about loud noise in a nightclub. Don't like it? Don't go."
No, second hand smoke is proven to be a cause of cancer. I should not be required to increase my risk of cancer to go to a club, simple as that. Your analogy is plain stupid.
Cigarettes have probably increased my life expectancy!
I hated bars and nightclubs when I was a teen/early 20 something, because the smoking bans hadn't fully been implemented yet. I hated smelling like an ash tray.
As a result, I almost never went, and probably saved myself from adopting a binge drinking habit that so many of my friends of that age got into.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
...the vapor cloud is huge and distracting.
That depends completely on the preferences of the user when selecting an eCig, adjusting settings when available, and selecting fluid. There are ways to make huge clouds (with which some people seem obsessed), but that doesn't have to be the case. It's not difficult to vape very discreetly if that's your motivation. Unfortunately, allowing people to discreetly vape implies inviting the fog machines too.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.