Study finds E-cigarettes don’t help smokers quit

[KittyWampus]

45. Here is how fucked up this "study" is:

Here is how fucked up this "study" is:

It took a number of cigarette smokers and singled out the 88 who said they had ever used e-cigarettes even if only ONCE.

And then they followed up a year later.

Only 9 of the 88 who had at least tried the e-cigarette once quit smoking.

So this asinine study didn't bother to recruit tobacco smokers who were INTENDING to quit, or INTENDING to use e-cigarettes regularly.

It didn't even ask if those who had at least tried e-cigarettes if they now used them at all and/or smoking tobacco cigarettes less frequently.

It is such a dishonest "study" one wonders if those who designed it and carried it out have an agenda.


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For the baseline survey, participants were asked if they had used electronic cigarettes in the past 30 days (even once); how many conventional cigarettes they smoked per day; time to first cigarette (less than or more than 30 minutes after waking each day); and whether they intended to quit smoking with the next six months, if at all.

Only 88 participants said they used e-cigarettes…...

Participants were asked the same questions at the one-year follow-up, with only those answering both sets of questions included in the study.

The researchers found e-cigarette smokers at baseline were not significantly less likely to quit smoking regular cigarettes one year later than people who did not use the products.

While 13.5 percent of the total study pool quit smoking, only nine of the 88 e-cigarette smokers quit.

"There was no association between having tried an e-cigarette and quitting smoking at one-year follow up," study author Dr. Rachel A. Grana, a postdoctoral scholar at UCSF School of Medicine, told CBS News' Adriana Diaz.

E-cigarette smokers overall did not express more intent to quit in their initial baseline interviews than other adults surveyed. E-cigarette use also did not reduce the number of regular cigarettes smoked.


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/electronic-e-cigarettes-wont-help-smokers-quit-study-claims/