Combining Counselling And E-Cig Use is Most Effective in Helping Smokers Quit

Source from:  Vapingpost 02/03/2021

The research consisted of a randomised controlled trial involving 376 participants and the findings indicated that at 12 weeks, those who used e-cigarettes were twice more likely to have quit, than those who did not. On the other hand, reported the research team, at 24 weeks there was less of a difference between the two groups.

Around a third of the study participants (128), were given nicotine-containing e-cigarettes alongside regular counselling sessions, while 127 volunteers were given e-cigarettes without nicotine and counselling. The rest of the participants, 121, were just offered counselling.

The trial found that at 12 weeks, 21.9% of participants given nicotine-containing e-cigarettes had quit smoking, while only 17.3% of participants given non-nicotine e-cigarettes were successful, and only 9.1% of those recieving just counselling. The researchers concluded that those using nicotine-containing e-cigarettes were 2.4 times more likely to quit than those who did not.

“These findings show that nicotine e-cigarettes are effective for smoking cessation in the short term,” said lead study author Mark J. Eisenberg, MD, MPH, a cardiologist at the Jewish General Hospital, professor of medicine at McGill University. “Vaping with counseling is more effective than counseling alone, although it’s not a magic bullet for smoking cessation.”