No Smoking: Switching to E-Cigarettes May Ease Smoking Cessation
Eight to ten out of 100 subjects managed to avoid cigarette smoking for at least six months
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Eight to ten out of 100 subjects managed to avoid cigarette smoking for at least six months. For the review study on smoking cessation, it used results from 80 randomized controlled trials with a total of 29,861 participants. The study by a group led by Jamie Hartmann-Boyce of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (USA) has been published online in the “Cochrane Library”.
Furthermore, “There is strong evidence that regulated e-cigarettes containing nicotine are significantly less harmful than smoking,” Hartmann-Boyce said. In comparison, it is only about six percent in nicotine-free e-cigarettes and in nicotine replacement therapies, in which the patients are supplied with nicotine by patches, chewing gums, pastilles or sprays. Controlled means that the different test groups are compared with a control group where no test is performed.
In addition, The medical guidelines for tobacco cessation in Germany provide for behavioral therapy, usually as group therapy and often combined with nicotine substitutes. “This method remains the gold standard of tobacco cessation,” says Mons. © dpa-infocom, dpa:260826-930-582275/1 This is a message directly from the dpa news channel.
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Eight to ten out of 100 subjects managed to avoid cigarette smoking for at least six months.
reliability low1/3 sourcesFor the review study on smoking cessation, it used results from 80 randomized controlled trials with a total of 29,861 participants.
reliability low1/3 sourcesThe study by a group led by Jamie Hartmann-Boyce of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (USA) has been published online in the “Cochrane Library”.
reliability low1/3 sources“There is strong evidence that regulated e-cigarettes containing nicotine are significantly less harmful than smoking,” Hartmann-Boyce said.
reliability low1/3 sourcesIn comparison, it is only about six percent in nicotine-free e-cigarettes and in nicotine replacement therapies, in which the patients are supplied with nicotine by patches, chewing gums, pastilles or sprays.
reliability low1/3 sourcesControlled means that the different test groups are compared with a control group where no test is performed.
reliability low1/3 sourcesThe medical guidelines for tobacco cessation in Germany provide for behavioral therapy, usually as group therapy and often combined with nicotine substitutes. “This method remains the gold standard of tobacco cessation,” says Mons. © dpa-infocom, dpa:260826-930-582275/1 This is a message directly from the dpa news channel.
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