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Smokers that think that smoking e-cigs helps them quit smoking sounds pretty far fetched to me.
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of course it helps them quit "smoking"... they quit smoking and replace it with inhaling nicotine vapor... they are still addicted to nicotine, but ecigs seem like obviously much healthier and cheaper (??) way of consuming nicotine...
... and ecig addiction is actually easier to give up, the only psychoactive substance in ecigs is nicotine... while tobacco contains nicotine, and other psychoactive substances on top of that...
"Although nicotine has been identified as the main ingredient in tobacco responsible for aspects of the tobacco dependence syndrome,
not all of the psychopharmacological effects of smoking can be explained by nicotine alone. Accumulating preclinical and clinical evidence has demonstrated that smoking also leads to potent inhibition of both types (A and B) of monoamine oxidase (MAO).... We speculate that MAO inhibition by compounds found in either tobacco or tobacco smoke can potentiate nicotine's effects..."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11343627