“While evidence suggests that vaping is currently increasing smoking cessation,” they added, “the impact could be much larger if the public health community paid serious attention to vaping’s potential to help adult smokers, smokers received accurate information about the relative risks of vaping ...
sample of e-cigarette users focussing on the circumstances in which individuals began vaping, their reasons for continuing vaping, their perceptions of the relative harm of vaping compared to smoking, and their views as to whether their use of e-cigarettes had increased their likelihood of smoking...
There's been plenty of scientific debate about whether vaping is safer than tobacco, and whether it may help some people stop smoking.
The original work attempted to quantify the relative harm to health from electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) compared to smoked tobacco. As such it used various biomarker studies and previously modelled estimates of smoking-related health loss. However, we now consider that the data ...
With the wealth of knowledge their staff members have in this field, and the evolving studies around vaping benefits compared to smoking, they feel the responsibility of ensuring accessibility to a healthier alternative that will change people’s lives, one at a time. ...
In this paper we report the views of a small sample of e-cigarette users focussing on the circumstances in which individuals began vaping, their reasons for continuing vaping, their perceptions of the relative harm of vaping compared to smoking, and their views as to whether their use of e-...
Nonetheless, vaping is still mainly considered a phenomenon among the younger generations, and its health benefits compared to smoking are often dismissed by the older generations as scams. On Zhihu, there exist questions that reflect some people’s perceptions of vaping in China. For example,a us...
says progressing the promised law change and setting some minimum quality standards could support a faster transition from smoking to vaping. "It would also provide clarity around the greatly reduced risk associated with vaping compared to smoking which would encourage more people to make the switch....
Iterative categorization was used as a technique to further explore a subset of data specifically focused on smoking lapse.Analysis revealed that smoking lapse is perceived qualitatively differently when using e-cigarettes as compared to past quit attempts. Having the pleasurable alternative of vaping ...
and conventional cigarettes. The take-home message for smokers and e-cigarette users is that using e-cigarettes long-term is likely to carry substantial health benefits, certainly in relation to cancer risk, compared with continued smoking. E-cigarettes are certainly safer than combustible cigarettes...