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E-Cigarettes Are Effective At Helping Smokers Quit, a Study Says (nytimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: The study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that e-cigarettes were nearly twice as effective as conventional nicotine replacement products, like patches and gum, for quitting smoking. The success rate was still low -- 18 percent among the e-cigarette group, compared to 9.9 percent among those using traditional nicotine replacement therapy -- but many researchers who study tobacco and nicotine said it gave them the clear evidence they had been looking for. The study was conducted in Britain and funded by the National Institute for Health Research and Cancer Research UK. For a year, it followed 886 smokers assigned randomly to use either e-cigarettes or traditional nicotine replacement therapies. Both groups also participated in at least four weekly counseling sessions, an element regarded as critical for success. The findings could give some new legitimacy to e-cigarette companies like Juul, which have been under fire from the government and the public for contributing to what the Food and Drug Administration has called an epidemic of vaping among teenagers. But they could also exacerbate the difficulty of keeping the devices away from young people who have never smoked while making them available for clinical use.
If all smokers switched to vape tomorrow, would there be a massive overall improvement in health? Of course there would be.
I speak from experience.
I smoked for over ten years and I quit, for good.
One day my 8 year old niece said to me : "Uncle, I don't want to see you die from lung cancer". And she meant it. A little girl making such a statement was quite powerful to me.
I quit smoking that week. For the first 3 weeks I had many urges to smoke a cigarette. I countered each and every one of those urges with a "NO, I am not going to smoke" thought. And I succeeded in not smoking. The first three weeks were the most difficult and after that the urge to smoke began to subside. Anyone who has the inner strength to make a decision and stick to it can quit smoking, and you don't need a patch or a vape-device or gum or any of the rest of that shit. All the "crutches" do is keep your body and brain conditioned to getting a dose of nicotine. I strongly believe the crutches will greatly increase the probability that a person won't quit smoking.
Everyone who smokes is in denial. It's not THEM who will get lung cancer, it's some other person. Well, that is utter bullshit.
If you have your priorities straight, smoking will look like a bad idea, period. And you CAN quit if you make a firm decision to quit.
That's all there is to it.
That was already disproven (including one of the researchers involved in the study actually condemning it) as the way they got those results was by taking a discontinued $3 4w ecig top (the kind you used to find in gas stations around 2012 which nobody has used in ages) and slapping it on a mech mod (something that on average costs over $100 and is used by the kind of hardcore vapers that would never use a $3 top) so they could pump over 80w into a 4w tank.
Did they detect formaldehyde? Sure when you pump 80w into a 4w device you are gonna detect all kinds of things as it literally melts, in fact several YouTubers tried to recreate the "experiment" but couldn't even get the device to hit as it was burning up too quick. BTW do you know who funded the study? Your good friends at RJ Reynolds.
But feel free to look up "ecig formaldehyde" on YouTube as you will find many trying to recreate the results and you can watch exactly what happens when you pump 80w+ into a 4w piece of plastic with a wire as small as a human hair, what comes out certainly isn't vapor. Luckily its pretty much physically impossible to do unless you use exotic hardware like a mech mod because all devices that have been made in the last 5 years or so have automatic detection of wattage so they simply will not let you run too much power into a low power tank, it just won't fire and will give you an error code.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
...is 35% owned by Altria, AKA Philip Morris, acquired for $13 billion late last year. Expect a lot more reporting of how wonderful vaping is from now on. Meanwhile, we have a vaping epidemic hitting schools. Are we going to do this all over again?
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