Study says e-cigarette helped around 6.1 million smokers to quit

According to a recent publication in Addiction, approximately, 6.1 million Europeans have quitsmoking by seeking the help of vaping. This is just an estimation and the study needs to focus more of the data that reveals the benefits of vaping. It is important because of the new regulations of e-cigarette that has been rolling all over the USA and Europe. The rules claim to threaten the entire e-smoking industry.

What the data reveal?

According to the data collected in 2014, after a deep analysis, researchers have found that 2% respondents are presently practicing e-smoking an 14% have been able to quit smoking successfully after choosing vaping. In the Addiction paper, the research was made more further and thus the results found were impressive.

35% of the former smokers were able to quit, from the respondents who are still using e-cigarettes. Of the respondents who have claimed to e-smoke daily, 30.6% have successfully quit smoking in comparison to 8.9% who vaped only once a week or even less. The researchers also claimed that approximately 6.1 million people have quit smoking via vaping and 9.2 million have been able to reduce the intake by becoming dual smokers.

The logic is that millions of people have tried and also failed to abstain smoking with the use of e-cigarettes and also by using other tools. About 23% people are successful quit smoking via the prescribed medical drugs and 6% through nicotine patches and gums.

According to the Pfizer representatives, an anti-smoking drug, Chantix had been recommended to around 22 million people across the globe since its entry in the market. 23% is the success rate, which means that 5 million people have stopped smoking via the drug, on par with the concept of vaping and other quit smoking technology available.

Is e-smoking really effective?

It is said that the report has limitations as the 6 million people estimated to have stopped smoking is just an estimated analysis, moreover, the survey was done in an interview style involving around 28,000 people and it was all self reported. The report says, “ Although surveys and studies of users display that several smokers were successful to quitsmoking via e-cigarettes, random collections have shown modest outcomes and thus the efficacy of e-cigarettes have been questioned.”

Furthermore, it has been added, “it is not practical to expect an experimental use of e-cigarettes as an effective smoking cessation tool. There are surveys that fail to differentiate between the regular and the experimental use and the outcome is the overestimation of the efficiency and the underestimation of the smoking substitute efficacy.