CORRECTION: E-cigs may help smokers quit, even if they didn't want to

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**CORRECTION: JAMA issued a correction on this paper due to incomplete to omitted conflict of interest disclosures (June 2024)** A US study of 1,600 smokers who did not initially use e-cigarettes and had no plans to ever quit smoking found using e-cigs daily increased the chances of them quitting the smokes by eight times, compared with smokers who didn't use e-cigs at all. Although there are harms associated with e-cigs, they may be an important public health tool in helping smokers with no intention to quit change their ways, the researchers say.

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Association of e-Cigarette Use With Quitting Smoking

What The Study Did: Researchers evaluated whether e-cigarette use is associated with discontinuing cigarette smoking among smokers who were initially never planning to quit.

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Organisation/s: Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA

Funder: This manuscript is supported with federal funds from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, and the Center for Tobacco Products, US Food and Drug Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, under contract toWestat (contracts HHSN271201100027C and HHSN271201600001C).

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