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E-Cigarettes May Be Your Best Hope to Quit Smoking
Smoking remains one of the worst things we do to our health. We get hooked on the nicotine and then regularly ingest a list of poisons that slowly consume our organs. Health systems around the world are desperate to get people to stop smoking in a bid to reduce the healthcare burden of patients with smoking-related diseases. But their recommendations can only do so much when up against the physiological addictions in smokers’ brains.
As far as doctors and scientists today can tell, e-cigarettes do less bodily damage than traditional tobacco cigarettes, although our existing knowledge on their health risks is far from complete. With the overwhelming difficulty associated with going cold turkey on nicotine, vaping may provide a welcome aid on the journey to smoking cessation. Recent media attention has focused on the hazards of vaping, especially on its growing use among adolescents. While we should all agree that we need to curb the glamorous advertising of nicotine addictions to minors, we can still look for the potential advantages of e-cigarettes as a replacement device for smokers.
Do e-cigarettes actually help you quit smoking? At the end of January 2019, a noteworthy trial by researchers in the UK was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and it targeted exactly that question.
