A recent study with adult smokers who had approached the NHS Stop Smoking Services compared e-cigarettes with nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) as part of a smoking cessation service.
After a year, 18% of e-cigarette users had stopped smoking tobacco compared with 9.9% of NRT users. However, 80% of people using e-cigarettes in the trial continued to use them 12 months on, while the preferred results would be for them to be smoke and e-cigarette free.
Experts estimate that vaping is at least 95% less harmful than smoking cigarettes, but recent reports of deaths and lung disease in the US linked to vaping have caused a worldwide alarm about the use of e-cigarettes.
In October we asked the M3 Community:
"Should e-cigarettes be considered a smoking cessation aid or a dangerous habit?"
The survey has been conducted amongst 8004 M3 members in Europe (United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Spain and France). Overall in Europe 63% of the participants, think vaping is a dangerous habit.
The majority in the United Kingdom have the same opinion, with 64% thinking of e-cigarettes as containing health risks and 36% as smoking cessation aid. Respondents in Italy and Germany share the same opinion, with 65% and 70% thinking that vaping is a dangerous habit.
In Spain, the results are even higher with 82% of the respondents not convinced of vaping being helpful for smoking purposes while France is the only country in which the majority of respondents think of it as a tool to help smokers.
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2 comments
Creo que todas estas formas de fumar son peligrosas y que cada vez es mas sofisticados pero nuestro estado de salud es cada vez peor