A new study led by John W. Ayers of the University of San Diego in the United States looked at the reasons people use e-cigarettes.
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Usually it is believed that people who vape do so in order to quit smoking but this is not always the case and this new study decided to look more at the reasons people turn to e-. cigarette. To obtain their results, the researchers used social networks.
Most of the people who responded to the study reported that they had turned to electronic cigarettes to quit smoking. But this is not the only reason, others also claim to be attracted to the flavors offered by e-cigarettes and some only go there to be in a certain trend.
The research was conducted by John W. Ayers, a University of San Diego researcher who is also an expert in public health surveillance. Ayers and his colleagues took to Twitter to pose their questions to vapers. According to SDSU New Center, thanks to Twitter, Ayers and other researchers were able to obtain more than three million tweets from 2012 to 2015.
Study uses tweets to understand why people and how do you think about it? 3 years https://t.co/fB1oX71E8r #hcsm #digitalhealth
- Sherry Pagoto (@DrSherryPagoto) March 2, 2017
The study obviously excluded anything that might not come from vapers such as spam and ads, it mainly focused on those who used e-cigarettes during this period. In 2012, 43% of people who used e-cigarettes said to do so to stop smoking for less than 30% in 2015. The second most cited reason for using the e-cigarette is the image returned by it with 21% of respondents in 2012 against more than 35% in 2015. Finally, 14% said to use the electronic cigarette for the flavors proposed in 2012 for the same proportion in 2015.
Since 2015, the consumption of electronic cigarettes is mainly due to the image and the social aspect, there would be fewer people who would use it to quit smoking.
Source : Journals.plos.org
