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FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Electronic cigarette use in England is positively associated with overall cigarette quit rates and quit success rates, according to a study published online Oct. 17 in Addiction<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Emma Beard, Ph.D., from University College London, and colleagues estimated how changes in the prevalence of e-cigarette use have been associated with changes in smoking cessation activities and daily cigarette consumption among smokers in England using data from the Smoking Toolkit Study (50,498 participants).<\/p>\n
The researchers found that overall quit rates increased by 0.054 percent (95 percent confidence interval [CI], 0.032 to 0.076; P < 0.001) and 0.050 percent (95 percent CI, 0.032 to 0.076; P < 0.001), respectively, for every 1 percent increase in the prevalence of e-cigarette use by smokers and e-cigarette use during a quit attempt. For every 1 percent increase in the prevalence of e-cigarette use during a quit attempt, quit success rates increased by 0.060 percent (95 percent CI, 0.043 to 0.078; P < 0.001). There was no association between e-cigarette use and either prevalence of quit attempt (\u03b2 = 0.011; 95 percent CI, \u22120.046 to 0.069; P = 0.698) or cigarette consumption (\u03b2 = 0.019; 95 percent CI, \u22120.043 to 0.082; P = 0.542).<\/p>\n
“This study builds on population surveys and clinical trials that find e-cigarettes can help smokers to stop,” Beard said in a statement. “England seems to have found a sensible balance between regulation and promotion of e-cigarettes. Marketing is tightly controlled so we are seeing very little use of e-cigarettes by never-smokers of any age, while millions of smokers are using them to try to stop smoking or to cut down the amount they smoke.”<\/p>\n
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