Posted on 02/22/2023 8:18:03 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Should electronic cigarettes, or vapes, be accepted more widely as an effective and respected tool for treating adult smokers' nicotine addiction?
Kenneth Warner says there is enough evidence to support e-cigarettes' use as a first-line aid for smoking cessation in adults.
"Far too many adults who want to quit smoking are unable to do so," Warner said. "E-cigarettes constitute the first new tool to help them in decades. Yet relatively few smokers and indeed health care professionals appreciate their potential value."
In a study, Warner and colleagues took a global view of vaping, examining countries that promote vaping as a smoking cessation and countries that don't.
"We believe that governments, medical professional groups and individual health care professionals in countries such as the U.S., Canada and Australia should give greater consideration to the potential of e-cigarettes for increasing smoking cessation," Warner said. "E-cigarettes are not the magic bullet that will end the devastation wrought by cigarette smoking, but they can contribute to that lofty public health goal."
Warner's previous research has found considerable evidence suggesting e-cigarettes are an effective smoking-cessation tool for adults in the U.S., where hundreds of thousands of people die of smoking-related illness each year.
They also cite the Food and Drug Administration's designating some e-cigarette brands as "appropriate for the protection of the public health"—the standard required to receive approval for marketing. This action, the researchers say, implies indirectly that the FDA believes e-cigarettes can help some individuals quit smoking who would not do so otherwise.
Warner and colleagues concluded that "acceptance of the promotion of e-cigarettes as a tool for smoking cessation will likely depend on continuing efforts to reduce access to, and use of, the products by young people who have never smoked. The two objectives can and should co-exist."
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I have a better way to quit smoking.
Quit decades ago. Lived on an acre surrounded by trees. Had a dog and two cats. Every time I wanted to smoke, I ran out to the yard so I wouldn’t scare the pets and shouted swear words.
Took about ten days and that was the end of my smoking career.
How’s that for a nice little lady?
To the ‘researchers’:
DUH!
The people I know who vape are still consuming nicotine
They vape more than they smoked
The people I know who vape are still consuming nicotine
They vape more than they smoked
i kept telling myself over and over “Nope- Not gonna throw away the last (fill in the blank) hours of hell on earth from withdrawals- (I was coming off opioids after a few years of them at same time) and be right back where i started”
This was motivation enough for me that time to quit for good- plus the fact that i was gettign out of breath walking 100 yards or so and had smoker’s cough which i knew was leading to lung problems (emphysema and COPD)-
My friend who was around 60 quit and he’d go out fishign without any ciggs, and swear his lungs out out in the middle of the lake- but he;’d stay out for several hours at a time, and eventual beat the addiction-
i will saty though that even after 10 years, i still have dreams where i ‘just try a few ciggs,’ and somehow don’t get re-addicted- but at least when i wake up now- I’m not craving them anymore like i was i n the beginning -
I don’t smoke tobacco regularly anymore but I vape, and don’t intend to quit.
Harmless human behaviors practiced for thousands of years have suddenly become ‘addictions’ and ‘health risks’.
It shows the reach and brain-washing power of the Medico-GOV-Techno complex, and many of you have fallen for it.
Vaping should be shut down except as cessation. Not the new ongoing alternative to smoking. But can folks put this genie back in the bottle?
True.
Nicotine is not the harmful part of smoking.
Over 10 yrs without a ciggie thanks to the vape
Fine. But why stop there? Lets ban all booze, sodas, sweets, etc. Last I checked, we live in a kinda free country. I don’t need big brother telling what I can and cannot have
Ah, the middle of the lake. How poetic. Wish I’d thought of that. But Puget Sound was far far too cold.
Shouting swear words should be in the medical manual somewhere. Maybe someone will open Swearing Centers, $15 for 15 minutes.
Harmless human behaviors practiced for thousands of years have suddenly become ‘addictions’ and ‘health risks’.
Bingo! Anyone who still trusts Big Pharma after the COVID vaxxes is a hopeless case.
Vaping still places hot gases in the lungs
There is probably many health risks due to vaping like oil droplets aerosolizing into your lungs but vapor pens don’t get hot to the point heat would damage your lungs. Regular cigarettes would be hotter.
Worked splendidly for me.
I’ve been mixing my own vape fluids for years. Everything is water based. Vaping oil based products burns out atomizers badly.
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