Nicotine Electronic Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation

Isobel Hunter, MD
D. Jason Frasca, DO, FAAFP

American Family Physician. 2025;111(3):210-211.

Author disclosure: No relevant financial relationships.

ISOBEL HUNTER, MD, and D. JASON FRASCA, DO, FAAFP, Virginia Commonwealth University Riverside Family Medicine Residency Program, Newport News

Address correspondence to Isobel Hunter, MD, at izyt@hotmail.com.

Author disclosure: No relevant financial relationships.

  1. 1.Benowitz NL. Nicotine addiction. N Engl J Med. 2010;362(24):2295-2303.
  2. 2.Barbeau AM, Burda J, Siegel M. Perceived efficacy of e-cigarettes versus nicotine replacement therapy among successful e-cigarette users: a qualitative approach. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2013;8(1):5.
  3. 3.Notley C, Ward E, Dawkins L, et al. The unique contribution of e-cigarettes for tobacco harm reduction in supporting smoking relapse prevention. Harm Reduct J. 2018;15(1):31.
  4. 4.Lindson N, Butler AR, McRobbie H, et al. Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2024(1):CD010216.
  5. 5.Wills TA, Soneji SS, Choi K, et al. E-cigarette use and respiratory disorders: an integrative review of converging evidence from epidemiological and laboratory studies. Eur Respir J. 2021;57(1):1901815.

Copyright ©2026 MD Aware, LLC (theNNT.com). Used with permission.

This series is coordinated by Christopher W. Bunt, MD, AFP assistant medical editor, and the NNT Group.

A collection of Medicine by the Numbers published in AFP is available at https:// www.aafp.org/afp/mbtn.

Copyright © 2026 by the American Academy of Family Physicians.

This content is owned by the AAFP. A person viewing it online may make one printout of the material and may use that printout only for his or her personal, non-commercial reference. This material may not otherwise be downloaded, copied, printed, stored, transmitted or reproduced in any medium, whether now known or later invented, except as authorized in writing by the AAFP. See permissions for copyright questions and/or permission requests.