{"id":26144,"date":"2023-02-20T13:19:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T18:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=26144"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T18:19:29","slug":"university-of-michigans-dean-emeritus-says-theres-proof-to-support-vaping-as-a-smoking-cessation-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/26144","title":{"rendered":"UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN&#8217;S DEAN EMERITUS SAYS THERE&#8217;S PROOF TO SUPPORT VAPING AS A SMOKING CESSATION TOOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"485cu-0-1\">&#8220;Kenneth Warner, dean emeritus and the Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan\u2019s School of Public Health, says <\/span><span style=\"color: #33cccc\"><strong>there is enough evidence to support e-cigarettes\u2019 use as a first-line aid for smoking cessation in adults<\/strong><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"485cu-0-3\">. \u201cFar too many adults who want to quit smoking are unable to do so,\u201d Warner said. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"color: #33cccc\"><strong>E-cigarettes constitute the first new tool to help them in decades<\/strong><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"485cu-0-5\">. Yet relatively few smokers and indeed health care professionals appreciate their potential value.\u201d In a study published in Nature Medicine, Warner and colleagues took a global view of vaping, examining countries that promote vaping as a smoking cessation and countries that don\u2019t. While <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"485cu-0-6\">agencies in the United States and Canada acknowledge the potential benefit of e-cigarette use, they deem the evidence to recommend e-cigarettes for smoking cessation as insufficient<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"485cu-0-7\">, according to the authors. However, <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"485cu-0-8\">in the United Kingdom and New Zealand there is high-level support and promotion of e-cigarettes as a first-line smoking cessation treatment option<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"485cu-0-9\">. <strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\">\u201cWe believe that <\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\" data-offset-key=\"485cu-0-10\">governments, medical professional groups and individual health care professionals in countries such as the U.S., Canada and Australia should give greater consideration to the potential of e-cigarettes for increasing smoking cessation<\/span><\/strong><span data-offset-key=\"485cu-0-11\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\">,\u201d<\/span><\/strong> Warner said. \u201cE-cigarettes are not the magic bullet that will end the devastation wrought by cigarette smoking, but they can contribute to that lofty public health goal.\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966\">ARTICLE LINK:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/researchers-rethink-e-cigarettes-role-in-treating-cigarette-smokers-nicotine-addiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Researchers: Rethink e-cigarettes\u2019 role in treating cigarette smokers\u2019 nicotine addiction<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"UNIVERSITY%20OF%20MICHIGAN%27S%20DEAN%20EMERITUS%20SAYS%20THERE%27S%20PROOF%20TO%20SUPPORT%20VAPING%20AS%20A%20SMOKING%20CESSATION%20TOOL\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kenneth Warner, dean emeritus and the Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan\u2019s School of Public Health, says there is enough&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent_news","category-vaping-news","wpcat-15-id","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26144"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26149,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26144\/revisions\/26149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}