ArticlePreventive medicine reports2021
Smoking cessation or initiation: The paradox of vaping.
Article in Preventive medicine reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Drug delivery strategies for the treatment of relapse behavior in substance use disorder- A systematic review.Metabolic brain disease · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic Review and Critical Analysis of Longitudinal Studies Assessing Effect of E-Cigarettes on Cigarette Initiation among Adolescent Never-Smokers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Oxidative Stress as a Potential Mechanistic Bridge Between Electronic Cigarette Components and Chronic Disease: A Combined Narrative and Bibliometric Analysis.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Impact of E-Cigarette Use on Circadian Proteins and Cardiovascular Risk Markers.Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2026Article
- Unmasking the appeal: voices of young adults prior to World No Tobacco Day at Qatar University.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Temporal associations between smoking prevalence and smoking-related mortality: a US state-level ecological study.BMJ public health · 2026Article
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- E-cigarette use and susceptibility among Indonesian youth: the role of social environment, social media, and individual factors.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Review
- Use of nicotine products and tobacco cessation in Swiss primary care: Cross-sectional data from the Sentinella network.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- Prevalence of vaping, vaping-associated short-term symptoms of respiratory and cardiovascular morbidities, and factors associated with the initiation of vaping among young adults in Kuwait.Tobacco induced diseases · 2025Article
- Vaping leads tobacco consumption among university students in Arab countries: a study of behavioral and psychosocial factors associated with smoking.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Bridging the regulatory gap: a call for a regional, evidence-informed approach to e-cigarette control in Latin America.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Correlates of perceived social unacceptability of vaping among regular e-cigarette users: a cross-sectional study of a sample of Middle Eastern countries.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Review
- E-cigarettes in the Middle East: The known, unknown, and what needs to be known next.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Prevalence, Knowledge, and Attitudes among Health Professions Students toward the Use of Electronic Cigarettes.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Vaping control in Nova Scotia: using research to catalyze change.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2022Article
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
In recent years, there has been a rapid expansion of the vaping market which has led many to question whether vaping can assist people in smoking cessation, or if it in fact paves the way for new smokers. While there has not been conclusive evidence regarding vaping as a smoking cessation tool, there is striking evidence that vaping is linked to new smoking addictions, especially in teenagers and young adults. Despite the prevalent belief that tobacco is more harmful to the body, early research on vaping has already shown very detrimental effects, and the comprehensive effects may become much clearer in the years to come. To curtail the rapidly increasing number of teenagers and young adults vaping, strict action must be taken. Legalization with tight control of vaping products would focus the efforts on those attempting to quit, while helping to prevent acquisition by teenagers and young adults that are not of legal age. In the years to come, vaping controls should be carefully considered to ensure that the purported benefits of helping those overcome a smoking addiction are not outweighed by the unintended consequences of creating a teenage demographic addicted to vaping.
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