Smokers who use e-cigarettes every day ‘are most likely to quit cigarettes’

PEOPLE who use e-cigarettes were significantly more likely to have quit smoking, new research suggests.

Researchers found that more than half of daily e-cigarette users had quit smoking in the last five years compared to just 28 per cent of adults who had never tried vaping.

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And the probability of quitting smoking was three times higher in vapers than those who smoke tobacco, researchers at Columbia University found.

Lead author Daniel Giovenco said: "While questions regarding the efficacy of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation remain, our findings suggest that frequent e-cigarette use may play an important role in cessation or relapse prevention for some smokers."

Daniel and his team looked at data from the 2014 and 2015 National Health Interview Survey in the US and narrowed down the smokers and former smokers who quit in 2010 or later.

They found the single strongest predictor that someone had quit tobacco was daily e-cigarette use.

But smokers who were only occasional users of e-cigarettes were less likely to quit smoking cigarettes.

Cristine Delnevo, the study's second author, said: "Without knowing details about device attributes, user experiences, and motivations for e-cigarette use, reasons for low cessation rates among infrequent e-cigarette users are unclear."

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Last month a study from the University of California found vaping is linked to a "significant increase" in the number of people quitting fags.

The study suggested sixty-five per cent of e-cigarette users have tried to give up compared with 40 per cent of fag smokers.

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And they are almost twice as likely to succeed for at least three months.

Around 350,000 people in the US quit smoking 2014-15 due to vaping, the study claimed.

The study suggested that vaping has a positive impact on smoking rates by acting as a nicotine replacement therapy.

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