Do e-cigarettes actually help to stop smoking?
"Can e-cigarette help me to stop smoking?"- it's the most common question from smokers-to-be-turned vapers and smokers-turning-vapers ever since e-cigarettes are launched in the market. Tagged as a healthier alternative to regular cigarettes, these cigalikes assure no presence of carcinogenic components usual with the original white stick and hence are claimed to be a safer solution. According to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine, 54% of doctors are positive about vaping as an effective smoking cessation option. Moreover a report released by European Commission in 2015 had also noted that around 6.1 million Europeans have stopped smoking after shifting to vaping.
This is definitely a welcome news to parents of teens who are constantly worried about their adolescent kids taking to vaping at just "record levels". Parents are usually tensed with the assumption that this heightened inclination to vaping would ultimately lead to smoking, culminating to marijuana and heroin, finally destroying their future forever. However, a recent study published in Tobacco Control journal has noted that teen vaping is not exactly as alarming as it is commonly deemed to be, especially by the parents. One of the main reasons here is that electronic cigarettes are available in a wide variety of flavors, added to nicotine –as well as variety of strengths that allow users to customize their consumption level. Moreover, electronic cigarettes embody vaporized liquid that are way better for our lungs compared to hot smoke from conventional cigarettes.
Conducted by the big shots in teen drug policy, the study revealed that the concept of nicotine-based vaping trend was mostly uncommon in teens surveyed. Just a meager 13% of 8th-grade vapers & 20% of 10th & 12th standard vapers had taken to nicotine in their recent vaping sittings. Only 6% of teen vapers in all the 3 grades had taken to marijuana. Market reports state that vaping is so popular among teens now that almost every high-school student has experienced e-cigarette even if s/he has not smoked a real cigarette.
According to Vlad Vassiliev, the MD of popular online e-cigarette store VapeClub -"the quality and flavor of the e-liquid as well as the vaping hardware go a long way in deciding whether the user would stick to the safer vaping or go back to the carcinogenic traditional smoking. Thus, we always make sure to extend premium quality vaping juice and latest hardware to keep our customers content so that they never feel like shifting back to the conventional white stick."
Again, two studies based in King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience- have suggested that –cigarettes are quite potent to help out smokers in kicking the traditional cigarettes. However, according to these researchers, quitting smoking with e-cigarettes is more likely to work if one is a daily smoker. It might be even more beneficial for the users to use e-cigs with the refillable tanks that assure higher nicotine dose.
In the second study, 25 percent of 587 electronic cigarette vapers used tank models daily and of these, around 28 percent left tobacco smoking within a year- in comparison to 13 percent of smokers that didn't take to the electronic cigarettes.
