{"id":8433,"date":"2020-07-24T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vaping.trusticert.com\/?p=8433"},"modified":"2020-07-24T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T13:25:08","slug":"e-cig-smoking-cessation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/e-cig-smoking-cessation\/","title":{"rendered":"Are e-cig effective for smoking cessation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>We want to open this new chapter of the ECIG SCIENCE story with a <strong>pivotal article<\/strong>, published in 2019 by one of the most ambitious research journals in the world: The New England Journal of Medicine. It talks about one of the most debated aspects of <strong>vaping: how is it effective for smoking cessation?<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>886 participants<\/strong> were assigned to <strong>nicotine replacement products (NRT)<\/strong> of their choice for up to 3 months or an <strong>e-cigarette starter pack<\/strong> (second generation refillable with 18 mg\/ml nicotine liquid). The participants received also a weekly behavioural support for at least 4 weeks.<br \/>\nThe <strong>abstinence ratio from traditional smoke<\/strong> after one year was <strong>18% in the e-cigarette group<\/strong> compared to <strong>9,9% in the NRT group<\/strong>.<br \/>\nE-cig group reported more frequent throat or mouth irritation and greater decline in cough and phlegm production, whilst NRT group reported more frequent nausea.<br \/>\nIn conclusion <strong>e-cigarettes were more effective for smoking cessation than NRT therapy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The original work has been supported by the National Institutes for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment Programme (project number, 12\/167\/135) and by a grant (A16893) from the Cancer Research UK Prevention Trials Unit.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1808779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> was published on January 30, 2019, at NEJM.org and up to today it received 318 citations.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span>We want to open this new chapter of the ECIG SCIENCE story with a pivotal article, published in 2019 by one of the most ambitious research journals in the world: The New England Journal of Medicine. It talks about one of the most debated aspects of vaping: how is it effective for smoking cessation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trusticert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8442,"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433\/revisions\/8442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}