"Electronic cigarettes can accelerate the potential of smoking decline." Dr. Gary Chen from the National Youth Substance Use Research Center at the University of Queensland in Australia provided support for this. Chen said that "global scientific evidence supports the growth of using e-cigarettes to help smokers quit smoking." This included a systematic review conducted by him with eight colleagues from the same Australian university and published in the journal Addictive Behavior.
The title of this work is "a systematic review of randomized controlled trials and network meta-analysis of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation", and its purpose is to compare nicotine e-cigarettes based on recognized nicotine (e.g. as a patch, chewing gum, oral spray and inhaler) ) And placebo tools (such as e-cigarettes without nicotine). The researchers looked at the existing scientific literature on the subject on PubMed, Web of Science and PsycInfo, and selected only studies on healthy smokers.
The results are almost beyond doubt. "Our study found-explained by the first author-e-cigarettes are 50% more effective than nicotine replacement therapy and 100% more effective than placebo." An important conclusion is also because it comes from scientific work carried out in a country like Australia, where the government’s position is by no means limited to e-cigarettes. "We hope that the results of this study (Edison Chen's comments) will be used to better target smoking and smoking policies." He concluded: "E-cigarettes may accelerate the decline in smoking. Scientific evidence must be used to reconsider how to use them. Potential to end the smoking epidemic".