{"id":6429,"date":"2021-10-27T11:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6429"},"modified":"2021-10-27T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T11:59:07","slug":"this-anti-vaping-congressman-insists-theres-simply-no-evidence-that-e-cigarettes-help-smokers-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6429","title":{"rendered":"This Anti-Vaping Congressman Insists &#8216;There&#8217;s Simply No Evidence&#8217; That E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;A 2020\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cochranelibrary.com\/cdsr\/doi\/10.1002\/14651858.CD010216.pub4\/full\" target=\"_blank\">meta-analysis<\/a>\u00a0of 26 randomized controlled trials concluded &#8220;there is moderate-certainty evidence that [e-cigarettes] with nicotine increase quit rates compared to [e-cigarettes] without nicotine and compared to nicotine replacement therapy.&#8221; The results of population studies, Balfour et al. say, &#8220;are consistent with a near doubling of quit attempt success, found in the randomized controlled trials, and the fact that e-cigarettes are smokers&#8217; most used aid in quit attempts.&#8221; They also note that declines in U.S. cigarette sales accelerated sharply as sales of vaping products took off, which reinforces the impression that more vaping means less smoking.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/09\/26\/this-anti-vaping-congressman-insists-theres-simply-no-evidence-that-e-cigarettes-help-smokers-quit\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/09\/26\/this-anti-vaping-congressman-insists-theres-simply-no-evidence-that-e-cigarettes-help-smokers-quit\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A 2020 meta-analysis of 26 randomized controlled trials concluded &#8220;there is moderate-certainty evidence that [e-cigarettes] with nicotine increase quit rates compared to [e-cigarettes] without nicotine and compared to nicotine replacement therapy.&#8221; The results of population studies, Balfour et al. say, &#8220;are consistent with a near doubling of quit attempt success, found in the randomized controlled trials, and the fact that e-cigarettes are smokers&#8217; most used aid in quit attempts.&#8221; They also note that declines in U.S. cigarette sales accelerated sharply as sales of vaping products took off, which reinforces the impression that more vaping means less smoking.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1245,439,1204,1398],"class_list":["post-6429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cigarettes","tag-drugs","tag-tobacco","tag-vaping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6430,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions\/6430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}