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The Italian Observatory for Smoking, Alcohol and Drugs is conducting a multi-step study where it provides a clinical approach to smoking cessation through the use of electronic cigarettes. The results thus far are nothing short of promising.

The study took 34 quit-resistant smokers all of which had smoked 20 cigarettes a day for at least 20 years. Unlike some previous studies, researchers in this one provided the smokers with extensive instruction in the use of electronic cigarettes along with some traditional quit coaching. As a result, at the 4 month mark, 50% were still using just electronic cigarettes, 24% used both, and 26% had gone back to smoking exclusively.

But that’s not all. Individuals who used both or had gone back to just smoking showed a significant reduction in overall amount of tobacco cigarette use and already showed overall improved lung health. As well, it appears electronic cigarettes in the hands of educated users were able to provide enough nicotine to quell cravings and withdrawal effects.

You’ll probably need to translate the page (unless you can read Italian), but information on the study can be found here.

The next step for the study is to gradually reduce nicotine content of the products so that the users can attempt to break their addiction to nicotine entirely.