Not long ago, a prospective longitudinal research paper was published in BMJ Open, the world’s largest clinical medical journal. The paper said that after tracking 17,539 American smokers, they found that suffering from high blood pressure, cholesterol and other diseases were related to long-term smoking through their self-reports. There were no reports of related diseases among people who used e-cigarettes.
Another experiment involving Pennsylvania State University showed that the use of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes can greatly reduce dependence on cigarettes, thereby helping smokers quit smoking.
With the popularity of e-cigarettes, many smokers around the world have regarded them as the best alternative to cigarettes. Even so, some of the public still know little about the health effects of e-cigarettes, and more people remain skeptical. In fact, research on e-cigarette products and their safety has already been carried out. The British Ministry of Public Health officially announced in the E-cigarettes: an evidence update document released in 2015, “E-cigarettes can reduce the harm by about 95% compared with traditional tobacco. “.
More and more evidence is also showing that e-cigarettes are indeed safer than traditional combustible cigarettes. Recently, the University of Michigan, Georgetown University and Columbia University jointly published a paper: Time-varying association between cigarette and ENDS use on incident hypertension among US adults: a prospective longitudinal study. The paper stated that the researchers studied 17539 18 Multiple follow-ups of American smokers over the age of 10 were conducted, and a time-varying tobacco exposure variable was constructed.
Ultimately, it was found that self-reports of hypertension occurred between the second and fifth waves, and smokers were associated with an increased risk of self-reported hypertension compared with non-users of any nicotine products, while those who used e-cigarettes were not.
Penn State University also conducted a similar follow-up study to assess the dependence of smokers on cigarettes, e-cigarettes and total nicotine after switching to e-cigarettes. The experiment divided 520 participants into four groups. The first three groups were given e-cigarette products with different nicotine concentrations, and the fourth group used NRT (nicotine replacement therapy), and instructed them to reduce their smoking by 75% within one month. , and then follow-up examinations were performed at 1, 3, and 6 months, respectively.
The research team found that compared with the NRT group, all three groups that used e-cigarettes reported lower cigarette dependence at all follow-up visits than the median number of participants’ usual smoking. There was also no significant increase in total nicotine exposure compared to baseline. In view of these results, the researchers believe that e-cigarettes can reduce dependence on cigarettes, and smokers can achieve smoking cessation through long-term use of e-cigarettes without increasing the total intake of nicotine.
It can be seen that e-cigarettes are an effective alternative to other nicotine products in terms of smoking cessation and harm reduction. They can safely and quickly reduce smokers’ dependence on cigarettes and minimize the risk of human health impacts.
references
Steven Cook, Jana L Hirschtick, Geoffrey Barnes, et al. Time-varying association between cigarette and ENDS use on incident hypertension among US adults: a prospective longitudinal study. BMJ Open, 2023
Jessica Yingst, Xi Wang, Alexa A Lopez, et al. Changes in Nicotine Dependence Among Smokers Using Electronic Cigarettes to Reduce Cigarette Smoking in a Randomized Controlled Trial. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 2023
Post time: May-12-2023
