E-cigarettes Better Than Other Nicotine Replacement Therapies
The Washington
Post (1/30, McGinley) reports researchers found that “e-cigarettes are
almost twice as effective at helping smokers quit as nicotine replacement
therapies such as lozenges and patches.” The findings
were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Two accompanying
editorials, however, questioned the implications of the study. In one editorial,
Belinda Borrelli, Ph.D, and George T. O’Connor, M.D., “said e-cigarettes should
be used only when Food and Drug Administration-approved treatments do not
work.” In the other editorial,
Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D., Stephen Morrissey, Ph.D, and Edward W. Campion, M.D.,
“called on the FDA to immediately ban all flavored e-cigarettes, saying such
flavors are responsible for a huge increase in teen vaping.”
The New
York Times (1/30, Hoffman) reports the researchers found that 18% of
participants who used e-cigarettes quit smoking compared to 9.9% “among those
using traditional nicotine replacement therapy.”
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