Study: E-Cigarettes Don’t Help Smokers Quit

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) aren’t all they’re touted to be, according to a U.S. study. Researchers focused on whether they were effective smoking cessation tools. They found that e-cigarettes did not help people quit or cut down on smoking. The study followed 949 smokers. Of them, 88 said they were also using e-cigarettes at the start of the study in 2011. One year later, 14% of the total group had quit smoking. The e-cigarette group did not quit at a greater rate than the larger group. The study and its findings are not without controversy. Critics claim that the study was too small for the findings to be conclusive. The study was published in JAMA Internal Medicine online. HealthDay News reported on it March 24.