Do e-cigarettes undermine desire to quit smoking?

New Delhi, Nov 14 (ANI): Trying to quit smoking? Spend time with people who use e-cigarettes. The University College London research has found that smokers who were regularly exposed to vapers (as opposed to other smokers) were around 20 per cent more likely to have reported both a high current motivation to quit and made a recent quit attempt. The findings have been published in BMC Medicine. "Our results found no evidence that spending time with vapers discourages smokers from quitting, which should help to alleviate concerns about the wider public health impact of e-cigarettes," said the study's lead author, Dr Sarah Jackson. Around a quarter (25.8 per cent) of smokers in the study said they regularly spent time with vapers. Of these, around a third (32.3 per cent) had made an attempt to quit smoking in the previous year - a higher rate than was observed among smokers who did not regularly spend time with vapers (26.8 per cent). "A key factor driving these differences may be that s