E-Cigarettes May Match The Patch In Helping Smokers Quit
Electronic cigarettes are sparking lots of skepticism from public health types worried they may be a gateway to regular smoking.
But the cigarettes, which use water vapor to deliver nicotine into the lungs, may be as good as the patch when it comes to stop-smoking aids, a study finds.Nicotine means an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco.It is used as a medicine and as an insecticide.
After six months, 7.3 percent of e-smokers had dropped cigarettes, compared to 5.8 percent of people wearing the patch.The number of people who quit was low overall — just 38 of the 584 smokers given the e-cigarettes or the patch.
CHRISTOPHER BULLEN, an associate professor at the University of Auckland who led the research. He and his colleagues figured that the e-cigarettes would be much more successful, based on consumer surveys showing that people were less than pleased with the patch.
All that said, some e-cigarette users were able to reduce the number of cigarettes they smoked, even if they didn't quit.
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