Wendy Zuckerman
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3 series
first heard May 2020
last heard 2 Jul
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But seriously, though, this has made me wonder, why are we comparing vaping to smoking?
Why are we doing this mountain comparison?
Because, you know, even if we get more data that vaping is bad and it becomes...
I don't know, Gashabrum 2, the 13th highest mountain in the world?
What if it even gets so bad that it's Gashabrum 1, which is the 11th highest mountain in the world?
I mean, the broader point is that currently, at least, when we compare vaping to smoking, vaping looks good.
Still, despite these headlines you hear, vaping looks good.
Right.
But if you look at vaping just on its own...
Vaping looks bad.
And so the reason that we have been making this comparison is because vaping was brought on the scene as this tool to help people quit smoking.
So it's very important for you to know as a smoker, wait, should I switch to this healthier thing or not?
Which leads us to our next question, which is how well do vapes actually help people quit smoking?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
No, so that number comes from a Cochrane review, which pulled together a ton of trials looking at thousands of people and ultimately concluded that for every hundred folks who use nicotine e-cigs to stop smoking, eight to 11 of them might successfully stop, which is where you get that 90% failure rate.
It's worth pointing out, according to that review, vapes don't look too bad when you compare it to the other stuff.
So six out of 100 people might successfully quit smoking when they use patches or gum.
Four out of 100 might successfully quit if you do other things, like you go cold turkey.
But here is why, because I can hear people really holding on to this, particularly if you want to keep holding on to your vapes.
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