Efficacy Studies

E-Cigarette Characteristics and Cigarette Cessation Among Adults Who Use E-Cigarettes

Date Added:
September 26, 2024

In this study, daily e-cigarette use and use of e-cigarettes in 2019 to 2021 were consistently associated with greater cigarette discontinuation rates. These findings suggest that research focused on e-cigarettes marketed in recent years is needed to inform product regulation and public health policy decisions.

Effects of interventions to combat tobacco addiction: Cochrane update of 2021 to 2023 reviews

Date Added:
September 24, 2024

Nicotine replacement therapy (especially patches combined with fast acting forms), varenicline, cytisine, bupropion, nicotine e-cigarettes, behavioural counselling, and financial incentives are all effective ways to help people quit smoking. Quitting smoking improves mental health and reduces cardiovascular events and mortality in people living with cardiovascular disease.

Quitting Strong: New Zealand’s Smoking Cessation Success Story - 2024

Date Added:
September 24, 2024

New Zealand has halved its smoking rates in just five years by supporting adult smokers to switch to vaping, a new report reveals. Smoking rates in New Zealand are set to dip below five per cent, putting it on the brink of being declared officially ‘smoke free.’ Global health campaign group Smoke Free Sweden says the country presents a compelling case study for the ‘Swedish Model’ of smoking cessation, where safer nicotine alternatives are made readily available to smokers. An important aspect of the success is Government-Endorsed Communication: Challenge and correct misinformation, especially about risk-reduced nicotine products, and nicotine itself. Counterbalance false narratives which confuse adult smokers about relative risks and prolong the smoking epidemic. Most importantly, encourage adults who smoke to quit or switch to less harmful nicotine alternatives.

Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department (COSTED): a multi-centre, randomised controlled trial

Date Added:
September 17, 2024

Giving out free e-cigarette starter packs in hospital emergency departments to people who smoke helps more people quit – according to research from the University of East Anglia. The trial, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), offered advice, an e-cigarette starter pack and referral to stop smoking services to people attending A&E for any reason, to help them to stop smoking. Six months later, almost one in four people given the starter packs said they had quit smoking. And those who received the packs but didn’t quit altogether, were more likely to have reduced the number of cigarettes they smoked.

E-Cigarette Characteristics and Cigarette Cessation Among Adults Who Use E-Cigarettes

Date Added:
August 12, 2024

In this study, daily e-cigarette use and use of e-cigarettes in 2019 to 2021 were consistently associated with greater cigarette discontinuation rates. These findings suggest that research focused on e-cigarettes marketed in recent years is needed to inform product regulation and public health policy decisions.

A Magic Bullet? The Potential Impact of E-Cigarettes on the Toll of Cigarette Smoking

Date Added:
July 12, 2024

Vaping is highly likely to reduce smoking-produced mortality. Still, vaping is not “the” answer to the public health crisis created by smoking. Rather, it may well be a tool to add to the armamentarium of effective tobacco control measures.

Efficacy and Safety of E-Cigarette Use for Smoking Cessation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Date Added:
July 5, 2024

Among individuals attempting to quit smoking, nicotine e-cigarettes are more efficacious than conventional nicotine replacement or behavioral smoking cessation therapies, and may prove beneficial in reducing smoking-related health risks.

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation

Date Added:
July 5, 2024

Evidence suggesting nicotine EC can aid in smoking cessation is consistent across several comparisons. There is now high‐certainty evidence that EC with nicotine increases quit rates at six months or longer compared to NRT, and there remains moderate‐certainty evidence that EC with nicotine increases quit rates at six months or longer compared to non‐nicotine EC.

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation

Date Added:
July 5, 2024

There is high-certainty evidence that ECs with nicotine increase quit rates compared to NRT and moderate-certainty evidence that they increase quit rates compared to ECs without nicotine.

Electronic Cigarettes vs Varenicline for Smoking Cessation in Adults

Date Added:
July 5, 2024

This randomized clinical trial found that varenicline and nicotine-containing ECs were both effective in helping individuals in quitting smoking conventional cigarettes for up to 6 months.