How to Generate Bogus Conclusions (E-Cig Study Edition)

[NoOneMan]

120. I know several people who quit smoking cold turkey

So you're anecdote is wrong!!!!!

The question isn't whether or not vaping or any other NRT can be used effectively as a quitting regime. The question is if doing so is more efficient than cold-turkey or placebo. And if it isn't (or is less effective), then let's not fool ourselves folks--they may have simply gotten lucky.

Again, I recognize that different strokes work for different folks.

And I also want to be clear that this study in general wasn't studying e-cigs usage as specifically part of a quitting routine, but merely if its usage had predictive power (and it did). Though, one could draw the conclusion that a large number of the users were in the process of quitting at the start of the study, from another established study that says 85% of users do so in an effort to quit smoking.

But with all that said, I'm not going to pretend your anecdote doesn't exist as long as you pretend this study doesn't.