E-cigarettes and smoking cessation: a critique of a New England Journal Medicine-commissioned case study.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Delphi consensus methodology to gauge expert perspectives on smoking prevention, cessation and harm reduction in Italy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025
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2. COPD smokers who switched to e-cigarettes: health outcomes at 5-year follow up.Therapeutic advances in chronic disease · 2020
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3. Health impact of electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco systems.Internal and emergency medicine · 2019
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4. E-cigarettes in patients with COPD: current perspectives.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2017
   Review
5. Blood Pressure Control in Smokers with Arterial Hypertension Who Switched to Electronic Cigarettes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016
   Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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