Can e-Cigarettes Help Adults Who Smoke Successfully Quit All Combusted Tobacco Products?
Menée à partir de données d'enquêtes réalisées entre 2013 et 2017 auprès de 13 604 participants et dont 9,4 % ont arrêté de fumer (âge moyen : 41,9 ans ; 43 % de femmes ; durée de suivi : 1 an), cette étude analyse le risque de rechute chez les personnes utilisant la cigarette électronique ou d'autres produits de tabac en tant qu'aide au sevrage tabagique
Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the US. Within public health, the question of whether the use of e-cigarettes might assist adults who smoke cigarettes to successfully quit all combusted tobacco products continues to be hotly debated. In their study, Pierce and colleagues report results from the analyses of large cohorts of established US adults who smoke cigarettes at baseline from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study suggesting that among recent former smokers at the first annual follow-up, switching to e-cigarettes did not prevent relapse back to smoking combusted cigarettes at subsequent annual follow-ups. Controlling for a range of potential confounders, switching to e-cigarettes was associated with a 9.3% higher relapse rate back to smoking over the next year of follow-up than among those former smokers who remained tobacco free (that is, did not use e-cigarettes or any other noncigarette tobacco product).
JAMA Network Open , éditorial en libre accès, 2020