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FRIDAY, July 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Daily electronic-cigarette use is associated with increased odds of prolonged regular cigarette smoking abstinence, according to a study published online July 11 in Nicotine & Tobacco Research<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Sara Kalkhoran, M.D., from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues examined the correlation between e-cigarette use and subsequent cigarette smoking cessation using data from waves 1 to 3 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that 3.6, 18, and 78 percent of wave 1 cigarette smokers were current daily e-cigarette users, current nondaily e-cigarette users, and reported no current e-cigarette use, respectively. Compared with nonuse of e-cigarettes, daily use at wave 1 correlated with increased odds of prolonged cigarette smoking abstinence (11 versus 6 percent; adjusted odds ratio, 1.77). There was also a correlation for current daily e-cigarette use at wave 1 with cigarette smoking abstinence separately at waves 2 and 3. There was no correlation for nondaily e-cigarette use with prolonged cigarette smoking abstinence or abstinence at either wave. Sixty-three percent of wave 1 current daily e-cigarette users who were abstinent from cigarette smoking at wave 3 were using e-cigarettes at wave 3.<\/p>\n
“For a smoker, e-cigarettes are less harmful to their health than continuing to smoke cigarettes,” a coauthor said in a statement. “But e-cigarettes have become popular so quickly that many questions remain about how they can best be used to help smokers to quit and minimize any harm.”<\/p>\n
Two authors disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical and medical technology industries.<\/p>\n
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