The vaping: this word is at the heart of the news in this month of November, the famous "Month without tobacco". Many smokers are turning to this method to stop smoking, while the price of the pack of cigarettes has increased again on November 1st. Guest of Walk-in, health show Melanie Gomez, addiction specialist Jean-Pierre Couteron highlights the importance of using electronic cigarettes to quit smoking.
The electronic cigarette "was invented by smokers who had not managed to stop," says the specialist in addictology which ensures to have "no link of interest with the pharmaceutical industry, nor that of tobacco, or vaping" . "It's estimated that it's 95% less harmful than tobacco," he says, citing "an expert in England who has updated about 200 studies, but we can not be completely precise, but it is clearly less toxic ". A statement also made by Agnès Buzyn, the Minister of Health in an interview to Europe 1 in June 2018.
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There is no shame in going through the vape to quit smoking
The advantage of vaping is that the person who wants to stop smoking does so "step by step, step by step". "We're still nicotine addicts, but we got rid of what we had to get rid of, and there's no shame in using the e-cigarette to stop smoking," he says. "In consultation, we see people who have tried to stop with other things, without success, and so they can try the e-cigarette."
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Especially since, as the doctor recalls, nicotine is not toxic. "It's the same as found in cigarettes, but also patches or chewing gums in pharmacy." The difficulty, continues Jean-Pierre Couteron, "is to have the right mix". "Hence the interest of going to good shops to get advice".
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The problem that there has been in the United States does not come from the electronic cigarette
If the e-cigarette is a "magnificent instrument to get out of tobacco", some fear the dangerousness of the products used, as we have seen with the 12 recent deaths in the United States. "The problem in this case does not come from the electronic cigarette.With cannabis, when it is smoked, what is dangerous is combustion, which produces tars.There are circulating oils, which contained THC, and normally they were not intended to be heated.Some people decided to use this in their ejaculatory.Since then, we saw trigger a succession of serious pulmonary situation.This is not due to cannabis but to the substance, oil Deaths are linked to a misuse of the vaping machine, "recalls Jean-Pierre Couteron. "There are cannabis forms that have been developed and tested to be vaping". In this case, "there is no health scandal here".
The specialist interviewed by Mélanie Gomez concludes, to reassure potential users, or potential, saying that "did not have in France serious events as in the United States." In France, from the beginning, we decided to put these products under control, by ANSES ".
Should we say electronic cigarette or e-cigarette?
"People who want to go to the vaping want to get out of the tobacco and therefore of the cigarette", first explains the specialist in addictology to justify his choice not to use the word cigarette. "The second thing is that the tobacco companies have not completely abandoned the battle and are manufacturing heated tobacco cigarettes, which therefore contains real tobacco and is pyrolysed just below and which does not have them. same benefits ". "So for the user who tries to quit smoking, breaking the word is important, and not to facilitate the marketing relationship, to put it in a very trivial way."