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Vaping

However, as has been previously established, there are some long-term data
regarding the use of nicotine replacement
therapy and the cardiovascular effects that
lay therein. Namely, there would appear
to be no change in the cardiovascular risk
of patients using nicotine replacement for
the cessation of tobacco. In addition, no
increased risk of heart attack or stroke has
been found in the combination of either
transdermal or oral nicotine with concurrent
tobacco use. This leads to the question of
whether or not electronic cigarettes may
play a role in tobacco use cessation. Because
of this question, some limited studies have
begun the process of determining whether
vaping may be used as a mechanism to quit
smoking. Unfortunately, these studies are too

limited in their population size and power
to detect the health effects produced by
continual use of electronic cigarettes. Likewise, they cannot serve to demonstrate the
utility of vaping as a mechanism to induce
nicotine cessation. All the more damning,
the majority of adults who utilize electronic
cigarettes to stop smoking end up dependent
on either the electronic cigarette by itself or
some combination of vaping and smoking.
This is made doubly damaging given the fact
that approximately 60 percent of the persons
attempting to quit smoking are doing so
either by the replacement or substitution
of cigarettes with vaping.

Continuing Forward
As the next several decades carry the
promise of additional research regarding
long-term effects of vaping, they also carry
with them the damages produced by this
new and untested vice. In the future, we
may find effects of electronic cigarettes to
be a reduction on what is now well over a
half-century of continual tobacco use despite
the clear acknowledgment of the disability
and potential death caused therein. However,
as with the original studies indicating the
negative effects of tobacco use, the study of
electronic cigarettes is merely in its infancy,
and it will be decades until the full width
and breadth of impact from this new delivery
device are fully known.

More Information
pmi.com/smoke-free-products/iqos-our-tobacco-heating-system
cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/index.htm
cochrane.org/CD010216/TOBACCO_can-electronic-cigarettes-help-people-stop-smoking-and-are-they-safe-use-purpose

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