…smokers lead by Keith Ablow, M.D., 75 percent of patients put tobacco away when given e-cigarettes, while 50 percent of those then stopped e-cigarettes as well, leading to full smoking cessation.
But this only seems to work if you’re replacing regular cigarettes with e-cigarettes and not using them in addition to other tobacco products, a pattern called “dual use” that Tim McAfee, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Office on Smoking and Health at CDC finds very concerning.
“If large numbers of adult smokers become users of both traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettes, the net public health effect could be quite negative,” he wrote in an official CDC position.
So if you are trying to kick the habit, e-cigarettes may help you, but if you don’t smoke, there’s no good reason to try electronically lighting up.