Electronic Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation

@article{Bullen2014ElectronicCF,
  title={Electronic Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation},
  author={Chris Bullen},
  journal={Current Cardiology Reports},
  year={2014},
  volume={16},
  pages={1-8}
}
  • C. Bullen
  • Published 11 October 2014
  • Medicine
  • Current Cardiology Reports
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are novel vaporising devices that, similar to nicotine replacement treatments, deliver nicotine but in lower amounts and less swiftly than tobacco smoking. However, they enjoy far greater popularity than these medications due in part to their behaviour replacement characteristics. Evidence for their efficacy as cessation aids, based on several randomised trials of now obsolete e-cigarettes, suggests a modest effect equivalent to nicotine patch. E-cigarettes… 
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Electronic Cigarettes: Common Questions and Answers.

Screening for e-cigarette use in youth and adults, including pregnant women, in conjunction with screening for tobacco use, is advised and pregnant women should be counseled to abstain from using all nicotine/tobacco products.

Do Electronic Cigarettes Have a Role in Tobacco Cessation?

The purpose of this article is to review literature regarding use of e‐cigarettes as a tool for tobacco cessation in patients who are ready to quit, as well as those who are not ready to Quit, along with some selected patient populations, and the safety and clinical implications.

E-Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation

It is reasonable to support a quit attempt with e-cigarettes following failure of evidence-based cessation treatments and behavioral support, stressing the fact that it is safest to do so without continuing to smoke tobacco.

Electronic cigarettes are at least as effective as nicotine patches for smoking cessation

E-cigarettes have been shown to reduce craving and withdrawal symptoms in abstinent smokers and, as nicotine is delivered without tobacco combustion, are thought to be substantially safer than cigarettes.

Electronic cigarettes in physician practice

Long‐term use of e‐cigarettes is safer than relapsing to smoking, and smokers should be advised that the highest success rates occur with daily use with nicotine e‐liquid and newer e‐cigarette models.

Barriers to electronic cigarette use

This exploratory study informs future cessation trials involving e-cigarettes about the barriers users face, and concludes that individuals who smoke a greater number of tobacco cigarettes are more likely to try e-cigarette, greater attention to nicotine dosing is necessary.

Electronic Cigarettes and Oral Health

Overall, studies reveal potential oral health harms of e-cigarette use, underscoring the importance of efforts to reduce use in nonsmokers and highlighting the benefits of quitting tobacco smoking.

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.

The safety and effect of using ECs to help people who smoke achieve long-term smoking abstinence and the main outcome measure was abstinence from smoking after at least six months follow-up is evaluated.

Smoking cessation support for dual users of cigarettes and electronic cigarettes.

E-Cigarettes—a review of the evidence—harm versus harm reduction

A shared decision-making approach should be used when discussing e-cigarettes as a harm reduction tool and more studies and long-term data are needed to assess potential benefits and harms.
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These findings suggest tobacco control practitioners must pay increased attention to the importance of the behavioral and social components of smoking addiction by addressing these components in addition to nicotine dependence, e-cigarettes appear to help some tobacco smokers transition to a less harmful replacement tool, thereby maintaining cigarette abstinence.

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation.

The safety and effect of using ECs to help people who smoke achieve long-term smoking abstinence and the main outcome measure was abstinence from smoking after at least six months follow-up is evaluated.

E-Cigarettes A Scientific Review

To minimize the potential negative impacts on prevention and cessation and the undermining of existing tobacco control measures, e-cigarette use should be prohibited where tobacco cigarette use is prohibited, and the products should be subject to the same marketing restrictions as tobacco cigarettes.

EffiCiency and Safety of an eLectronic cigAreTte (ECLAT) as Tobacco Cigarettes Substitute: A Prospective 12-Month Randomized Control Design Study

In smokers not intending to quit, the use of e-cigarettes, with or without nicotine, decreased cigarette consumption and elicited enduring tobacco abstinence without causing significant side effects.

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The use of e-Cigarette substantially decreased cigarette consumption without causing significant side effects in smokers not intending to quit, and perception and acceptance of the product was good.

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Allowing EC to compete with cigarettes in the market-place might decrease smoking-related morbidity and mortality and health professionals may consider advising smokers unable or unwilling to quit through other routes to switch to EC as a safer alternative to smoking and a possible pathway to complete cessation of nicotine use.

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Electronic cigarettes may develop into a genuine competitor to conventional cigarettes and government agencies preparing to regulate ECs need to ensure that such moves do not create a market monopoly for conventional cigarettes.
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