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The e-cigarette industry has successfully sold their products on the premise that it can help smokers quit their nicotine addiction and have healthier lungs. However, how effective are these products?
A recent study conducted by the University of California in San Francisco published in the UCSF website revealed that though the e-cigarettes have greatly reduced the amount of nicotine a smoker inhales; it is not that efficient in quitting.
A two-year medical research conducted had 135 smokers as participants, and the test group were asked to smoke five levels of cigarettes with a significantly lower content of nicotine. After a year, the e-cigarette with the lowest nicotine content has been smoked for over 7 months.
However, the participants of the said medical research were allowed to continue on patronizing their usual cigarettes for 12 months. Then, the test group was not allowed to use their usual cigarettes on the 13th month of the study. This would test on how efficient the e-cigarettes would be in helping a person quit smoking.
Meanwhile, on a separate report by the Business Standard, the American University of Beirut and the Center for the Study of Tobacco Products conducted a study on the e-cigarettes. Researchers of this study found out that e-cigarettes are just as addictive as the typical cigarettes.
This is because the e-cigarette liquids have the most addictive form of nicotine, and what the manufacturers of the e-cigarettes do is that they have wrongly labeled the products’ nicotine content. This can still cause major health problems to the users of the e-cigarettes.
Daily Mail UK has learned that the smokers really found it very difficult to quit using e-cigarettes, even after a year of using the product. The types of nicotine being used in the e-cigarettes are the strongest forms of nicotine that can be absorbed by the body. Dr. Neal Benowitz told the site that most of the e-cigarette users really have no idea how to quit their dependence on nicotine and that at present, health experts are still trying to find out what other health hazards e-cigarettes can bring to the smokers’ bodies.
There are presently over 400 brands of e-cigarettes out in the global market.