An exploration of flavours in studies of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation: secondary analyses of a systematic review with meta-analyses.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To estimate associations between e-cigarette flavour and smoking cessation and study product use at 6 months or longer.

Methods

Secondary analysis of data from a living systematic review, with meta-analyses and narrative synthesis, incorporating data up to January 2022. Included studies provided people who smoked combustible cigarettes with nicotine e-cigarettes for the purpose of smoking cessation compared with no treatment or other stop smoking interventions. Measurements included smoking cessation and study product use at 6 months or longer reported as risk ratios (RR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI); and flavour use at any time-points.

Results

We included 16 studies (n = 10 336); 14 contributed to subgroup analyses and 10 provided participants with a choic

SUBMITTER: Lindson N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10952306 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature