![]() They were also offered six weeks of phone-based behavioural support. Participants were advised to start using their study products two weeks before their quit date, and continue for a further 12 weeks. ![]() The 1124 participants – adults from all over New Zealand who were motivated to quit smoking – were randomly split into three groups: nicotine patches only, patches plus nicotine-free e-cigarettes, and patches plus an e-cigarette with 18mg of nicotine. The study, published in a top medical journal, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, was a randomised clinical trial, the gold standard in scientific research. This compares with only 2.6 percent of adult New Zealanders vaping every day. Rates are much higher among people living in the most deprived areas (23.2 percent), young adults (18.9 percent for 25-34 year olds), indigenous Māori (35 percent for Māori women, 27 percent for Māori men) and Pacific Island peoples (20 percent). In New Zealand, around one in eight (13 percent) adults aged 15 years and over smoke tobacco every day (NZ Health Survey 2017/8). It’s those other chemicals, not the nicotine, which kill up to two out of every three smokers.” The new study is the first ever to test the effectiveness and safety of using nicotine e-cigarettes with nicotine patches as combination NRT.Įxplains lead investigator, University of Auckland Associate Professor Natalie Walker, “Nicotine is what makes people want cigarettes, but it’s the tar and around 4000 other harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke that cause cancer, heart disease, lung problems and other smoking-related illnesses. In contrast, currently marketed nicotine containing e-cigarettes are not medicines – they are consumer products that offer a convenient, effective and safer way of replacing nicotine that would otherwise be obtained by smoking. ![]() NRT roughly doubles a person’s chances of stopping smoking compared with a placebo, and using two forms together is more effective than using one. Nicotine patches and other forms of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), such as nicotine gum and nicotine lozenges, are medically approved and widely used to help smokers quit by quelling their nicotine craving. New evidence from a large New Zealand vaping study suggests that hundreds of thousands more smokers worldwide could successfully quit the killer habit if they used nicotine-containing e-cigarettes (vapes) – illegal in a number of countries – together with nicotine patches. ![]() Vaping helps smokers quit, and nicotine vapes plus patches work best Media Release From: University of Auckland ![]()
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