Electronic Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation — Have We Reached a Tipping Point?
Mené sur 1 246 personnes fumant au moins 5 cigarettes par jour, cet essai randomisé évalue l'efficacité, du point de vue de l'abstinence tabagique à 6 mois, et la sécurité d'une intervention proposant des cigarettes électroniques en complément de conseils standards pour arrêter de fumer
After more than a decade on the market as consumer products in the United States, electronic nicotine-delivery systems — or e-cigarettes — remain highly controversial in medical and public health communities.1 These battery-operated devices allow users to inhale (“vape”) a nicotine aerosol, which sustains the nicotine dependence that keeps people smoking but avoids exposing the smoker to the many toxic chemicals that are generated when a cigarette burns tobacco.