More evidence is in that so-called e-cigarettes do let smokers stop smoking. Such cigarettes deliver to the user an oral nicotine hit without the associated carcinogens and other noxious chemicals found in tobacco smoke, by evaporating a solution containing the drug. A study just published in Addiction by Jamie Brown of University College, London, and his colleagues suggests they are 60% more successful at getting people to give up tobacco by themselves lie, without enrolling on a formal anti-smoking programme) than either willpower alone or previously available quitting aids like nicotine patches.
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