![]() One is that the smokers who were most likely to have quit were on the whole relatively young, white and male. There are a couple of necessary caveats here. “The impact of suspending retail sales of flavored Juul pods on adult smokers’ likelihood of quitting should be closely assessed.” “More frequent use of a Juul vaporizer and primary use of Juul pods in characterizing flavors, particularly mint and mango, appeared to be important to smokers’ chances of quitting,” the authors concluded. What’s more, banning flavored pods is likely to eliminate any gains in public health, according to this research (which, though published in November, just after the bans were announced, was submitted to the journal for publication in June and accepted in September). ![]() ![]() Thus, “ restricting adult smokers’ access to only Juul pods containing tobacco flavors may have the effect of diminishing adult smokers’ openness to try using a Juul vaporizer as an alternative to continuing to smoke cigarettes and may reduce the likelihood that adult smokers who do begin using a Juul vaporizer will attempt to quit or cut down smoking and succeed in those attempts,” the researchers suggest. Smokers who reported “exclusively using” flavored pods were 38% “more likely to have abstained from smoking” than tobacco-flavored pod users during the initial 30-day period-and, according to the research, those who reported using mint and/or mango at the six-month interval were between 40 and 46% more likely to have quit smoking than standard-pod users. That’s interesting-and something Juul and the tobacco industry will likely try to present to a skeptical public-but the flavors had an even more profound impact. And Juul users trying to stay cigarette-free between month three and month six were also more likely to have stayed cig-free than to have relapsed into smoking, according to the research. Even if that is true, 20.3% of survey participants reported “smoking abstinence outcomes” after six months. So, how did the survey go? Well, 41.5% of participants failed to follow-up at the six-month mark and were assumed to have slipped back into smoking. (Tobacco use, including secondhand smoke, kills 480,000 Americans a year, more than 10 times the number killed by opiates in 2017.) And also keep in mind that, at least in the UK, public health professionals encourage cigarette smokers to take up vaping-it’s “95% less harmful than tobacco,” according to Public Health England-in order to stand a better chance of quitting. According to the European Respiratory Journal, 95 to 97% of smokers fail to quit without professional help with cessation aids, like nicotine patches and professional help, the success rate ranges from 35 to 55%. ![]() Keep in mind that quitting smoking is insanely difficult. The smokers were asked to describe their tobacco use and to report whether they were able to stop smoking after 30 days-and then do so again after three months, and then once more after six months. SEE ALSO: It May Actually Be Good That E-Cigs Are More Addictive Than TobaccoĪnalysts at the UK-based Centre for Substance Use Research in Glasgow took surveys from 15,456 adult smokers based in the United States, all of whom had recently purchased a Juul Starter Kit and also responded to a Juul email invitation to participate in the survey.
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