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Young smokers may be more likely to reach for a cigarette when they are around people who are vaping, even when the vaping device looks nothing like a traditional cigarette. So found a study examining the impact of passive exposure to second-generation e-cigarettes on the urge to light up among smokers between the ages of 18 and 35. If you are interested in other vaping news or studies, come to Cacuq forum because it is an ecig forum including all vapers’ necessary knowledge.

 

While first-generation vaping devices were designed to look like regular cigarettes, second-generation vaporizers look more like ballpoint pens and are even called "vaping pens." In an earlier study, Andrea King, PhD, of the University of Chicago, and colleagues, showed that smokers were more likely to light up when they were around people using first-generation vaping devices.

 

The new research, published online in Nicotine & Tobacco Research, showed that exposure to people using vaping pens has the same effect, even though the devices no longer resemble regular cigarettes. Just like passive exposure to cigarette smoking, passive exposure to vaping increases smoking urge and desire among users of traditional cigarettes, the researchers concluded.

 

 

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The study included 108 young adult smokers who smoked five or more cigarettes a week, randomized to receive either a traditional combustible cigarette smoking cue or a vaping pen cue in a controlled, laboratory setting. Cigarette and e-cigarette urge and desire were assessed before and after exposure, and smoking behavior was also examined in a subsample of 26 participants. Study participants smoked, on average, 6.6 days per week (range of 1.3 to 7), and smoked 8.7 cigarettes on smoking days (range of 1.1 to 22).

 

While prior e-cigarette use was not a requirement for inclusion, 83% of the study participants reported a history of e-cigarette use and 27% reported use within the past month. The volunteers were recruited though online advertisements for a study described as "assessing mood responses to common tasks." During an hour-long session involving a range of tasks and interactions designed to keep participants from recognizing the primary goal of the study, they interacted with a member of the research team whom they believed to be a fellow volunteer.

 

Ecigs Forum Tells You. During these interactions, the researcher-"volunteer" smoked either a traditional cigarette or used a vaping pen. Both cues were found to increase smoking and vaping among the actual volunteers. When the researcher-volunteers drank water, there was no change in the actual volunteers' desire to smoke or vape.

 

 

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In the 26-person substudy, researchers offered daily smokers 20 cents per 5-minute interval over 50 minutes if they could resist the urge to smoke ($2.00 total). Most lit up within half this time, and their exposure cue (combustible cigarette or e-cigarette) did not appear to affect how long they were able to resist smoking.
The relatively small size of the study population was cited by the researchers as one of several study limitations. "If the current study findings are replicated in larger samples and extended to other advanced third-generation electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), further support will be evident that the use of ENDS products, across a broad range of device types, may serve as a novel smoking cue," King and colleagues wrote.

 

Ecigs Forum Tells You. "Further research will be needed to examine the active components of ENDS cross-cue reactivity and whether passive exposures should be addressed as part of the equation in determining the overall harm versus benefit of ENDS in society."

 

 

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