Effectiveness of the Electronic Cigarette: An eight-week Flemish study with six-month follow-up on smoking reduction, craving and experienced benefits and complaints

Effectiveness of the Electronic Cigarette: An eight-week Flemish study with six-month follow-up on smoking reduction, craving and experienced benefits and complaints [1]

Smoking reduction remains a pivotal issue in public health policy, but quit rates obtained with traditional quit-smoking therapies remain disappointingly low. Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR), aiming at less harmful ways of consuming nicotine, may provide a more effective alternative. One promising candidate for THR are electronic cigarettes (e-cigs). The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of second-generation e-cigs both in terms of acute craving-reduction in the lab and in terms of smoking reduction and experienced benefits/complaints in an eight-month Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT).

Original Source [2]

Publication Date:

29/10/2014

Author(s): Karolien Adriaens [3], Dinska Van Gucht [4], Paul Declerck & et al [5]

Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health [6]

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11220-11248

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