Does the electronic cigarettes to quit smoking

new researchThe Relationship of E-Cigarette Use to Cigarette Quit Attempts and Cessation: Insights From a Large, Nationally Representative U.S. Survey. showed that tobacco to quit using electronic cigarettes, you need to take up more often Weipa.

Scientists collected data on 24,000 people who participated in a population-based study on tobacco use. It was conducted by the US Census Bureau in 2014-2015. The researchers chose a short period of time, because that's when use of electronic cigarettes have become more frequent.

The purpose of the study - to figure out how to use Weipa helps solve survive for three months without a traditional cigarette. It was the first three months - the most difficult when a person refuses to smoking.

It was found that smokers who used the Weipa to 20 days a month or more, 2.8 times more likely to withstand those three months. In comparison, of those who took Weipa 5-20 days in a year, only 60% were able to survive for three months without cigarettes. A third of those who smoked every day Weipa, abandoned cigarettes altogether. Of those who hovered rarely, such a result have only 6%.

Weipa help to stop smoking regular cigarettes, but first they have to be used. It makes no sense to buy an electronic device, and get him a couple of days a month. It is not nearly as effective as continuous use of the electronic cigarette.

David Levi (David Levy), a professor at Georgetown University

The longer smokers throwing, replacing conventional cigarette e, the greater were their chances to forget about tobacco in general. With each passing day the likelihood of quit grew by 10%. Thus, the frequent use of Weipa helps quit traditional smoking.

However, pulmonologist Luis De Palo (Louis De Palo), professor at the School of Medicine Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, is concerned that electronic cigarette smokers enjoy too: "People do not become dependent on other forms of consumption of nicotine, because it not interested. Tasteless gum, nasal spray zhzhotsya, patches irritate the skin. And none of these methods does not meet the psychological, because it does not allow to hold something in their hands and do drag. For e-cigarette easily attached, simply to use, and they are more interesting. "

But this study does not show how to throw and then the electronic cigarette.

Luis De Palo

"We do not say that electronic cigarettes need to advise those who want to quit. But if other methods do not help, you can try and use the Weipa "- Levi said.

Weipa help, if a person was going to give up smoking for good. If not, it must be borne in mind that the steam also contains a hazardous substances and even heavy metals. Weipa still investigating their effects on the body are not fully understood, but the process goes. May open such effects of using electronic cigarettes, which we do not suspect. In addition, if a person has never smoked and took the Weipa, it can get addictive.

While the best way to quit smoking - to replace the method of delivery of nicotine to the body, as well as change conditioned reflex, which makes reach for a cigarette, using cognitive-behavioral therapy. At physiological and psychological way of helping overcome addiction.