Many smokers eager to quit embrace electronic cigarettes as a tool for kicking the habit, but a new study warns the move may raise the risk for becoming addicted to both cigarettes and vaping.
The finding follows a look at the experience of nearly 112,000 smokers who sought outpatient care at a single hospital between 2018 and 2020.
“Most smokers try to vape to quit smoking,” explained study author Dr. Li-Shiun Chen, an associate professor of psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) in St. Louis.
Given that 40 million American smokers want to quit, that’s a lot of potential vaping, the researchers noted….