Can E-Cigarettes and Pharmaceutical Aids Increase Smoking Cessation and Reduce Cigarette Consumption? Findings From a Nationally Representative Cohort of American Smokers.

ABSTRACT: Many smokers believe that electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and pharmaceutical cessation aids can help them quit smoking or reduce cigarette consumption, but the evidence for e-cigarettes to aid quitting is limited. Examining 3,093 quit attempters in the nationally representative US Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, using data from 2013-2015, we evaluated the influence of ENDS and pharmaceutical cessation aids on persistent abstinence (≥30 days) from cigarettes and reduced cigarette consumption, using propensity score matching to balance comparison groups on potential confounders and multiple imputation to handle missing data. At PATH Wave 2, 25.2% of quit attempters reported using ENDS to quit during the previous year, making it the most popular cessation

SUBMITTER: Benmarhnia T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6211241 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature