Every smoker knows that Smoking increases the risk for lung cancer, COPD, heart attack, stroke and many other diseases. Therefore, many people try each year, from the tobacco habit to kick. This could help you just a cigarette is better than previously assumed. E-cigarettes were in a large British study significantly more effective in Smoking cessation than traditional nicotine replacement products. The report Peter Hajek of Queen Mary University in London, and his colleagues in the renowned “New England Journal of Medicine”.
For the study, the researchers arranged 886 smokers who quit were ready and in the smoke-stop centers and the national health service made representations to a to were, of two groups. One group received conventional Smoking cessation products such as nicotine patches, gum, or lozenges.
The other group got a Starter kit for E cigarettes including a bottle of nicotine-containing E-Liquids. This is the liquid that is vaporized in the Smoking of E-cigarettes and inhaled. If this was consumed, should provide the participants according to their own taste. All the participants received during the first four weeks of once-weekly behavioral support in the Form of a personal doctor, contact.
Almost twice as many stopped Smoking on the
After a year it was evaluated, whether the patients had stopped Smoking. As a teetotal, they were counted if they had not smoked within one year from the second week after the beginning of the study, more than five cigarettes. In addition, they have been studied to this date, biochemically. Who refused to have this examination or not appeared, was counted as non-abstinent.
It turned out that it had managed in the E-cigarettes group, 18 per cent, with the Smoking, in the group using the nicotine replacement products, it was only 9.9 percent. Although slightly more participants from the steamer-group reported irritation of the mouth and throat area (65 percent vs. 51 percent), they noticed that they had significantly less cough and expectoration as before, and also less than the patients in the nicotine replacement group. In addition, the steamer described already after a week of abstinence than less irritable, and were able to focus better than the other group.
so Far there have been very few studies that have examined the effectiveness of E-cigarettes in Smoking cessation. In one of the early Generation of E-cigarettes, the less nicotine made than today’s models. In addition, there had been no direct contact with physicians. Although again and again people report that they have done it through E-cigarettes to stop Smoking, you will not be recommended in Germany and most other European countries at the Moment for weaning. This study will change the attitude of many Doctors, so far, E-cigarettes due to a lack of evidence had recommended to stop Smoking, believes the study’s lead author, Peter Hajek.
“Germany is still extremely backward”
“The study is of very high quality. The results speak clearly in favour of E-cigarettes are a promising possibility, if you want to stop Smoking with the tobacco,” said Derik Hermann, a Senior physician at the clinic for addictive behavior and addiction medicine at the Central Institute for Mental health in Mannheim, the daily mirror. Germany was, especially in comparison to the UK and the USA, in this regard, yet extremely “backward”. In these countries, Smoking cessation is encouraged and financially, in this country, patients have to pay themselves for it. As the “gold standard” in Germany is a combination of behavioral therapy and nicotine replacement therapy, for example with Patches.
However, one could ask the question, how realistic the study, said Sven Schneider from the Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Social and preventive medicine at the Science Media centre. Finally, the patient had experienced an unusually intensive care. In addition, a Liquid had been used with a relatively high nicotine proportion, and some of the Central statements were based on very small case.
80% vapor-deposited after a year, still
another aspect that seems even more important. After a year of abstinence, 80 percent of the vapor-deposited from the E-cigarette smoker group, whereas only nine percent of the other group even nicotine patches glued or chewing gum used. The question is, to VAPE if the E cigarette smokers quit, or whether you smoke tobacco simply long term Vaping to replace. And if so would be: How harmful would it be?
“Yet there are few data on what the effects of long-term consumption of E-cigarettes,” said Stefan Gutwinski of the clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy of the Charité to the daily mirror.
so Far, they suggest, however, that Vaping is far less harmful than Smoking real cigarettes. These contain, in addition to nicotine, many more, some cancer-causing ingredients such as tar, heavy metals and benzene.
In Germany, Smoking, 32.3 percent of men and 24.5 percent of women currently use tobacco. This proportion is low compared with Western and Northern European countries is very high. And also worldwide, with nine million Smoking men and seven million Smoking women on place 9 out of 195 countries surveyed. “Against the Background that we have a 90 percent relapse rates after Smoking cessation, it is about any five-percent happy,” said Gutwinski.
the E-cigarette as an introduction to nicotine?
The question now is whether new evidence is now also being discussed in Germany is whether E-cigarettes should be recommended for weaning. Gutwinski is skeptical. “In Germany abstinence in the first place, not damage reduction.” It shows, however, that purely abstinence-oriented forms of treatment are not achieved as good results as those with a similar substance, but without the harmful additives. An example of this is the methadone program to withdraw from Heroin.
And also the E-cigarette could, should the results of the study replicate, fall into this category. Then it might need in the future, a debate about how to deal in future with the E-cigarette. Still, many experts are faced with them in this country is critical. It is feared that they may encourage especially young people to nicotine use and that you then later change to tobacco. In fact, younger people try, especially at the age of 16 to 29 years, E-cigarettes, then the percentage decreases but continuously. How many switch to tobacco, there is, as yet, only a few findings.
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Why E-cigarettes work better than nicotine replacement products, the study authors can only speculate. It could be due to the fact that you can adjust the nicotine dose to your own needs as in the case of the replacement products. And also another reason is likely to be critical: The Vapor, the real cigarette Smoking with all its accompanying rituals, much closer than, for example, a band-aid to stick.
