ArticleTobacco control2022
Association of device type, flavours and vaping behaviour with tobacco product transitions among adult electronic cigarette users in the USA.
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- An update of a systematic review and meta-analyses exploring flavours in intervention studies of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Pooled it
- An exploration of flavours in studies of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation: secondary analyses of a systematic review with meta-analyses.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Pooled it
- Evaluation of Dual Use: Real Time Reductions in Combustible Cigarette Smoking During Co-Occurring Use of E-Cigarettes.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Trial
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- Repeated point-prevalence of switching away from smoking after electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) purchase.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Reasons for using electronic cigarettes among young adults aged 18 - 30: a systematic review.EXCLI journal · 2025Review
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- Personal Characteristics Associated With Switching From Cigarettes to Noncombustible Tobacco and Nicotine Products Among U.S. Adults: Findings From PATH Study Waves 1-5.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
- Reducing attractiveness of e-liquids: proposal for a restrictive list of tobacco-related flavourings.Tobacco control · 2024Article
- The role of flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems in smoking cessation: A systematic review.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2023Review
- Prospective association between e-cigarette use frequency patterns and cigarette smoking abstinence among adult cigarette smokers in the United States.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Article
- The Impact of Current Tobacco Product Use Definitions on Estimates of Transitions Between Cigarette and ENDS Use.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022Article
- Why do smokers use e-cigarettes? A study on reasons among dual users.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- Longitudinal associations between flavored tobacco use and tobacco product cessation in a national sample of adults.Preventive medicine · 2022Article
- Experimental Forum 2: Two Years After the 2020 Food and Drug Administration Guidance on E-Cigarette Flavors.American journal of public health · 2022Article
- e-Cigarette Use and Combustible Cigarette Smoking Initiation Among Youth: Accounting for Time-Varying Exposure and Time-Dependent Confounding.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2022Article
- "When I Don't Have a Cigarette It's Helpful, but It Really Don't Satisfy:" Qualitative Study of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) Use among Low-Income Smokers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Pilot Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Subjective and Contextual Factors Surrounding E-Cigarette and Combustible Tobacco Product Use among Young Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundFew studies assess whether electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) device characteristics or flavours impact longitudinal patterns of cigarette and e-cigarette use.
designWe examined data from waves 2-4 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study (2014-2018). Among adult (≥18 years) current e-cigarette users at wave 2 who were current smokers (dual users; n=1759) and former smokers (exclusive e-cigarette users; n=470), we classified participants into four use patterns at wave 3 (~12 months later) and wave 4 (~24 months later): (1) dual use of e-cigarettes and cigarettes; (2) exclusive cigarette smoking; (3) exclusive e-cigarette use; (4) non-use of both products. We used multinomial logistic regression to assess correlates of changing use patterns at 24 months, relative to no change, adjusting for sociodemographic factors.
resultsAt 24 months, 26.5% of baseline exclusive e-cigarette users, and 9% of baseline dual users, abstained from both vaping and smoking. Participants who vaped non-tobacco flavours (vs tobacco flavours), and used refillable tank or modifiable devices (vs disposable, cartridges and other devices) were less likely to transition to non-use of both products and to exclusive cigarette smoking. Baseline daily vaping (vs non-daily) was positively associated with exclusive e-cigarette use at 24 months for baseline daily cigarette smokers, but negatively associated with exclusive e-cigarette use and non-use of both products at 24 months for baseline non-daily smokers.
conclusionsNon-tobacco flavours, daily vaping and modifiable e-cigarette devices may help some smokers abstain from cigarette smoking via transitioning to exclusive e-cigarette use, but are also associated with ongoing exclusive e-cigarette use.
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