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E-cigarettes don’t help smokers quit, study finds

People who tried electronic devices no more likely to give up smokes a year later

SMOKE OUT  E-cigarettes deliver nicotine without smoke. But whether they enable people to quit regular cigarettes remains unclear. 

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By Nathan Seppa

- More than 2 years ago

Electronic cigarettes may not shut off the urge to smoke cigarettes. A survey of 949 smokers found no difference in quit rates a year after some had taken up e-cigarettes while others hadn’t, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco report March 24 in JAMA Internal Medicine.