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The studies keep coming. Following an Italian study earlier in the week which showed e-cigs do appear to help smokers kick the habit, another study from Belgium shows very much the same. Out of 48 smokers — all of which were deemed highly-resistant to quitting — 21% had kicked the habit as of the end of the eight-month study. Another 23% had cut their smoking by half or more. All together, tobacco consumption across the entire group fell by 60%.

You can read more about the study right here.

The researchers were quick to argue that e-cigs offered an alternative to smoking which proved successful at helping smokers cut down on their tobacco intake or quit entirely. “E-cig users get the experience of smoking a cigarette and inhale nicotine vapor, but do not suffer the damaging effects of a tobacco cigarette,” says authors Frank Baeyens and Dinska Van Gucht.

This is yet another in a long line of studies that shows electronic cigarettes work to the end of smoking cessation and reduction. There also stands a litany of studies which show the devices are around 99% less harmful than smoking. This is making it increasingly difficult for e-cig opponents to lean on arguments that there is no science to back up claims that the devices aren’t deadly and do help smokers.

Further preliminary research and evidence appears to suggest that, in the absence of tobacco smoke, nicotine vapor is not nearly as addictive. This makes it much easier for users to reduce the nicotine concentration of their choice e-cigs, to cut back on total intake of nicotine, and to eventually quit the drug entirely if that is what they wish to do.