Every year since 2012, the journal of scientific studies Cochrane takes stock of the latest work available on the vape. The latest edition brings good news to users of electronic cigarettes and a clarification for detractors, Indeed this one announces " that there is high-certainty evidence that e-cigarettes with nicotine increase smoking cessation rates compared to nicotine replacement therapies ».
THE MORE EFFECTIVE VAPE THAN NICOTINE PATCHES?
Time passes and yet vaping still has the greatest difficulty in convincing the scientific community and smokers. In question, many contradictory studies but also regulatory attacks that have only increased in recent years.
However, there is evidence of the harmlessness of the vape and its interest in stopping smoking. Cochrane, an independent, international, not-for-profit organization, produces systematic reviews of primary research on human health and health policy. Since 2012, she has been conducting a systematic review on electronic cigarettes, which is regularly updated.
In its new edition, the review still incorporates new studies and indicates that the level of evidence goes from “ moderate " at " and the greater “: there is evidence” with a high level of trust that e-cigarettes with nicotine increase quit rates. These findings are made on the basis of the range of tools containing nicotine available to adult smokers to quit smoking and, in particular, in relation to other nicotine substitutes such as patches and chewing gum.
This publication joins the conclusions of other studies and the publications of Public Health France indicating that the electronic cigarette is the tool most used and considered the most effective by smokers looking for solutions to quit tobacco.
THE PROOF IS THERE, WE NEED TO REACT!
The evidence is there and there is no longer any question of closing your eyes! On his side France Vapotage calls on the public authorities to take these independent scientific studies into consideration in order to:
– finally give vaping the place it deserves in the strategy to fight against smoking, among the whole range of tools made available to smokers looking for a solution;
– preserve it from any overtaxation that would hamper the approach of former adult smokers who use it, and amputate the purchasing power of its 3 million consumers;
– build with the professionals of the sector an adapted and dedicated regulatory framework, which will make it possible to meet the challenges linked to its success: protection of minors, safety and quality of e-liquids, eco-responsibility.
