E-cigarettes ‘helped 18,000 people quit smoking in 2015’

E-cigarettes are having a significant impact on bringing down the number of people smoking in the UK, according to a new study.

The University College London research analysed data from the Smoking Toolkit study, which provides information on smoking and cessation trends in England, as well as looking at the percentage of smokers who set a quit date with Stop Smoking Services.

It was indicated that e-cigarettes may have helped about 18,000 people in England to give up smoking in 2015. Although there was no evidence that the devices prompted more people to try to quit, it was shown that as more people used e-cigarettes, more of them successfully kicked the habit.

Professor Robert West of the Health Behaviour Research Centre at University College London said: "England is sometimes singled out as being too positive in its attitude to e-cigarettes. These data suggest that our relatively liberal regulation of e-cigarettes is probably justified."

An estimated 2.8 million people in the UK use e-cigarettes, making them the most popular smoking cessation aid in the country. The evidence produced so far shows e-cigarettes are much safer than tobacco.

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