{"id":5357,"date":"2017-02-14T17:05:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T22:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2017-02-14T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T22:05:53","slug":"the-switch-from-smoking-to-e-cigarettes-better-for-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-switch-from-smoking-to-e-cigarettes-better-for-health\/","title":{"rendered":"The switch from smoking to e-cigarettes better for health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E-cigarettes might make for a healthier alternative to smoking after all, according to the results of a first-of-its-kind long-term study. Researchers compared the intake of potentially harmful chemicals in e-cigarette users to that of people using nicotine patches and combustible (regular) cigarettes. Their findings suggest that the switch to e-cigarettes significantly reduced the subjects&#8217; carcinogenic chemicals, while their nicotine intake level stayed the same. Levels of potentially harmful chemical intake was also low in nicotine patch users. Using e-cigarettes or nicotine patches while continuing to smoke combustible cigarettes does not seem to offer the same benefit. These results suggest that e-cigarettes and nicotine patches act as a healthier smoking cessation; although researchers note that individuals must stop smoking completely to get the full health benefits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lion Shahab, Maciej L. Goniewicz, Benjamin C. Blount, Jamie Brown, Ann McNeill, K. Udeni Alwis, June Feng, Lanqing Wang, Robert West<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lion Shahab, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, Email: lion.shahab@ucl.ac.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/annals.org\/aim\/article\/2599869\/nicotine-carcinogen-toxin-exposure-long-term-e-cigarette-nicotine-replacement\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in <em>Annals of Internal Medicine<\/em> on February 7, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-cigarettes might make for a healthier alternative to smoking after all, according to the results of a first-of-its-kind long-term study. Researchers compared the intake of potentially harmful chemicals in e-cigarette users to that of people using nicotine patches and combustible (regular) cigarettes. Their findings suggest that the switch to e-cigarettes significantly reduced the subjects&#8217; carcinogenic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2870,2738,2871,1666,2737],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-cigarettes","tag-e-cigarettes","tag-nicotine-patch","tag-smoking","tag-vaping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/e-cigarette-1301664_640.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1op","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5358,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}