Electronic Cigarettes Do Not Help with Smoking Cessation
Many Failures in Quitting Smoking Using Electronic Cigarettes... Failure Rate of Quitting E-Cigarettes is Twice That of Conventional Cigarettes
[Asia Economy Senior Reporter Jinsoo Lee] A study has revealed that electronic cigarettes do not help teenagers quit conventional smoking.
Researchers at the University of Michigan announced on the 22nd (local time) in a paper published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that the proportion of teenagers who failed to quit smoking in 2020 increased. This marks a break in the steady decline observed since the late 1990s.
Separate analysis showed that the failure rate of quitting electronic cigarettes was twice that of quitting conventional cigarettes.
However, some experts criticized the study as flawed and argued that electronic cigarettes do help with smoking cessation.
The research team examined smoking habit data of 800,000 American teenagers from 1997 to 2020. They investigated whether these teenagers had ever smoked, attempted to quit, and succeeded in quitting.
The results showed that the success rate of quitting smoking had been improving throughout the 2010s but reversed in 2020. The failure rate increased from 1.3% in 2019 to 2.2% in 2020.
Further analysis focusing solely on electronic cigarettes revealed a failure rate of 4.1%. This is lower than the success rate of quitting conventional cigarettes since 2006.
Richard Mitch, a research professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research who led the study, stated, "There is a significant number of failed attempts to quit using electronic cigarettes," and added, "It is justified for U.S. authorities to regulate electronic cigarettes."
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The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) is reportedly about to approve electronic cigarettes as one of the smoking cessation aids. Once approved, doctors will be able to prescribe them.
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