A study conducted by two researchers in the United States and published by Addictive Behaviors magazine, demonstrates the impact of electronic cigarettes on smoking cessation. It found that more than half of the people who sprayed daily quit smoking for the next five years. This is the highest rate found in demographic and behavioural subgroups, the study says. Among two groups surveyed, smokers who had previously vaporized were more likely to quit smoking than smokers who had never vaporized.
Daniel Giovenco of Columbia University and Christine Delnevo of the Rutgers School of Public Health conducted a study on the habits of smokers who have already used vaporization. The analysis was based on data from the 2014 and 2015 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) surveys. They concern 15,532 people who are still smokers or who quit smoking after 2010. And for good reason, steaming did not really appear on the American market until that year. It was therefore only from this period onward that it was really possible to measure the impact of using vaporization for smoking cessation. In addition,”the use of vape is extremely rare in ex-smokers who quit before Vape was available and in people who never smoked,”according to the study.
Daily vapers more prone to smoking cessation
The use of daily vaping is strongly related to smoking cessation, according to the researchers who conducted this study. 25% of all people surveyed (smokers or recent ex-smokers) quit smoking. 5.1% of them vape daily and 52.2% have quit smoking. For example, those who use vapes daily are three times more likely to quit smoking than those who have never tried it before. The researchers put forward two hypotheses for this, which do not in any way represent assertions on the use of vape kits for stopping cigarettes, because of the “cross-sectional nature of the survey”. The first is that smokers use vaporization to stop smoking. The second concerns ex-smokers, who use it to prevent relapse into tobacco.
Occasional vapers less likely to stop smoking
Smokers or recent ex-smokers involved in the survey who occasionally use vape, or who have tried and stopped smoking, are less likely to stop smoking. They are even less likely to quit than smokers who have never smoked. The reasons for this failure to quit smoking in occasional vaporizers remain unclear, due to deficiencies in the NHIS survey questionnaires. According to the article, the public health community believes that “some smokers, instead of trying to quit smoking, intermittently use vaporization in places where they cannot smoke”. The absence of products adapted to their needs or those whose effectiveness is not proven, or simply the absence of a real desire to stop smoking may also be the causes. According to the researchers, future studies that incorporate comprehensive measures of vaporization use, such as frequency, material characteristics, and individual factors such as smoking dependence, should shed more light on the relationship between vaporization and smoking cessation.