E-cig research.

redkid

Spotted this on the journal, it's from New Zealand but interesting. Think we will see more of this over time

http://www.thejournal.ie/e-cigarette-patches-1070253-Sep2013/

grindle

Whatever it was, it's gone for me.

jamie72

Possibly this?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11115636

If it is, it goes against every other study so far, including the FDA's study which was purposely trying to find flaws in e cigs.

redsovine

nothing there for me too

jamie72

redsovine wrote: »

nothing there for me too

In my link?

grindle

This'd be it:

http://www.everydayhealth.com/stop-smoking/e-cigarettes-as-effective-as-nicotine-patches-study-says

Strange that the first two links I found on google for this had the pages removed (on thejournal and myopera)...

unblvlblkult

Gone already grindle!! WTF

Hang on may be a dodgy link

By Amir Khan, Everyday Health Staff Writer | Follow @AKhanMedia

FRIDAY, September 6, 2013 — If you’re looking to quit smoking, you may want to consider using an electronic cigarette, according to a new study published in the journal Lancet. Researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand found that e-cigarettes were just as effective as nicotine patches at helping smokers quit – a finding that experts say gives smokers another method to quit the deadly habit.

Researchers divided 657 smokers into three groups: 292 people received an e-cigarette, 292 received nicotine patches and 73 received a placebo e-cigarette that did not contain any nicotine. After 13 weeks, 7.8 percent of the e-cigarette group abstained completely from smoking, compared to 5.8 percent of the nicotine patch group and 4 percent of the placebo group. And while the difference between the e-cigarette and nicotine patch results isn’t statistically significant, the findings show that e-cigarettes are a safe and effective way to quit smoking, researchers said.

"While our results don't show any clear-cut differences between e-cigarettes and patches in terms of quit success after six months, it certainly seems that e-cigarettes were more effective in helping smokers who didn't quit to cut down," study author Chris Bullen, director of the national institute for health innovation at The University of Auckland, said in a statement. "It's also interesting that the people who took part in our study seemed to be much more enthusiastic about e-cigarettes than patches, as evidenced by the far greater proportion of people in both of the e-cigarette groups who said they'd recommend them to family or friends, compared to patches."

But even though the e-cigarette users may recommend them, some doctors are hesitant to.

“There’s not enough safety information on e-cigarettes to recommend them,” said Karen Benker, MD, associate professor and interim chair in the department of health policy and management at SUNY Downstate in New York City. “Some brands of e-cigarettes have been shown to have many of the same harmful chemicals that are also found in cigarettes. We don’t know the potential long-term harm of them.”

For that reason, Dr. Benker said she is more apt to advise patients who want to quit smoking to try nicotine patches.

“We know a lot about nicotine patches, and aside from an allergic reaction that can occur, they are very safe,” she said.

However, Benker said she that while she would dissuade people from using e-cigarettes, anything that helps people break the habit is good.

“Some people need to try different things to quit, and that’s okay, because quitting is better than dying,” she said. “Addiction is tough to get over. Most people take four or five attempts to quit before they actually succeed. “

And while the findings of the study show that the e-cigarette may be as effective as nicotine patches, it doesn’t address what Benker said is the bigger issue.

“The real harm with e-cigarettes is that young people are able to buy them, and they think they’re safe,” she said. “They are being marketed towards young people as being safe and cool, which isn’t good.”

A recent report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that teen use of e-cigarettes doubled between 2011 and 2012.

The researchers did not look into the marketing of e-cigarettes, but admitted that more research needs to be done before they could become a recommended part of an anti-smoking regimen.

“E-cigarettes were modestly effective at helping smokers to quit,” the researchers wrote in the study. “Uncertainty exists about the place of e-cigarettes in tobacco control, and more research is urgently needed to clearly establish their overall benefits and harms.”

grindle

unblvlblkult wrote: »

Gone already grindle!! WTF

Hang on may be a dodgy link

What the fûck is up with this study? Is it a fake that the media outlets fell for or is it being removed by vested interests?

rock whore

if it's the one posted by Jamie72, you'll notice that the source is the Daily Mail. You can draw your own conclusions from that.

CJhaughey

Try the Beebs link.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23985248