Myth: Alternative nicotine products don't help people stop smoking: Difference between revisions

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*Citation: Myers Smith, K., Phillips-Waller, A., Pesola, F., McRobbie, H., Przulj, D., Orzol, M., and Hajek, P. (2021) E-cigarettes versus nicotine replacement treatment as harm reduction interventions for smokers who find quitting difficult: Randomised controlled trial. Addiction, doi.org/10.1111/add.15628
*Citation: Myers Smith, K., Phillips-Waller, A., Pesola, F., McRobbie, H., Przulj, D., Orzol, M., and Hajek, P. (2021) E-cigarettes versus nicotine replacement treatment as harm reduction interventions for smokers who find quitting difficult: Randomised controlled trial. Addiction, doi.org/10.1111/add.15628
*Acknowledgements: The study was funded by a Tobacco Advisory Group project grant, Cancer Research UK (C6815/A20503).
*Acknowledgements: The study was funded by a Tobacco Advisory Group project grant, Cancer Research UK (C6815/A20503).
===2021: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33798919/ A systematic review of randomized controlled trials and network meta-analysis of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation]===
*Smokers assigned to use nicotine e-cigarettes were more likely to remain abstinent from smoking than those assigned to use licensed NRT, and both were more effective than usual care or placebo conditions.
*Citation: Chan GCK, Stjepanović D, Lim C, Sun T, Shanmuga Anandan A, Connor JP, Gartner C, Hall WD, Leung J. A systematic review of randomized controlled trials and network meta-analysis of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation. Addict Behav. 2021 Aug;119:106912. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.106912. Epub 2021 Mar 15. PMID: 33798919.
===2021: [https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-021-00475-7 Electronic cigarettes in standard smoking cessation treatment by tobacco counselors in Flanders: E-cigarette users show similar if not higher quit rates as those using commonly recommended smoking cessation aids]===
*One third of the total sample was biochemically verified smoking abstinent 7 months after quit date, with e-cigarette users (40%) having significantly higher chances to be smoking abstinent than NRT users (23%).
*[https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12954-021-00475-7.pdf PDF Version]
*Citation: Adriaens, K., Belmans, E., Van Gucht, D. et al. Electronic cigarettes in standard smoking cessation treatment by tobacco counselors in Flanders: E-cigarette users show similar if not higher quit rates as those using commonly recommended smoking cessation aids. Harm Reduct J 18, 28 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-021-00475-7
*Acknowledgement: This research received no external funding. EB is supported by a PhD-fellowship of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen; 1177820N).
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