E-cigarettes 'help thousands successfully quit smoking'

Conclusion Stopping smoking remains the best thing you can possibly do for your health. Anything that can help reduce the number of people who smoke is likely to have a good impact on health. But although this study found e-cigarette use was linked to an increase in successful quit attempts, there are a number of things to be aware of: Attempting to quit with e-cigarettes alone may not be as helpful as attempting to quit using an NHS stop smoking service. Getting support and help for a quit attempt is thought to increase your chances of success fourfold. You can use NHS services and e-cigarettes together if you wish. The study can't prove using e-cigarettes is the direct reason for the improved rate of quit attempts as other confounding factors may have been involved. Some of the study results were surprising – for example, the researchers calculated that the rise in the legal age for smoking from 16 to 18 was associated with a bigger increase in quitting success rates than you'd expect. This casts some doubt over the results. Questions remain about whether e-cigarettes are really safe. While there's still work to do on this, Public Health England estimates the aids are 95% safer than using tobacco cigarettes. The important thing if you're a smoker is to give yourself the best possible chance of stopping smoking for good.   Links To The Headlines E-cigarettes 'help more smokers quit'. BBC News, September 14 2016 E-cigarettes can help smokers quit, says...
Source: NHS News Feed - Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Medication Heart/lungs Cancer Source Type: news