The effect of ecigs study 2011

[Muddyfunster]

My apologies if this information is already on POTV, i did search and couldn't find it, but please delete it mods if it is.

This is a link to a PDF file, and it is a 6 month study on the effect of using ecigs on smoking reduction and cessation: a prospective 6 month pilot study. Bear in mind this was published in 2011. Also, it was produced by "biomed central", who is a U.K. based organisation, and are "for profit-based".

This makes extremely interesting reading to me, and i want to share.

Here is basically what the 12 pages of PDF comes down to, and it is a copy paste from page 1:

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Cigarette smoking is a tough addiction to break. Therefore, improved approaches to smoking
cessation are necessary. The electronic-cigarette (e-Cigarette), a battery-powered electronic nicotine delivery device
(ENDD) resembling a cigarette, may help smokers to remain abstinent during their quit attempt or to reduce
cigarette consumption. Efficacy and safety of these devices in long-term smoking cessation and/or smoking
reduction studies have never been investigated.

Conclusion:
The use of e-Cigarette substantially decreased cigarette consumption without causing significant side
effects in smokers not intending to quit (http://ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT01195597).

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The PDF will show the method of the study.

O.k. so the linky : http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-11-786.pdf

As i said, please excuse me if it's already been posted.

 

[AnnaLaw]

I've not seen this before although I've read similar studies, but the thing it highlighted was the carto claim. If nobody taking part in the study smoked over 40 cigarettes a day and one carto is eqivalent to 40 cigarettes at least, then they were all using the equivalent of 80 to 120 cigarettes a day!
That could be interpreted in one of two ways.
Either
1. Subjects more than doubled their smoking when vaping
or
2. The carto claim is false advertising.

A machine may be able to get 400 puffs from a carto but people aren't machines and vaping isn't done in the same way as smoking. Auto batteries and these cigalikes need a couple of primer puffs, which would take it to 120 puffs (12 fags) if you vaped in exactly the same way as you smoked, but who vapes 10 1.5 second puffs then stops?