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Our findings suggest that people who smoke will increase their chances of successfully quitting smoking if they use a nicotine-containing e-cigarette to help them quit, compared to trying to quit with no support or with traditional nicotine replacement therapy, said author Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, MA, DPhil, associate professor at Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford

smoking rates dropped roughly 30% between 1995 and 2019, from about 1 in 4 adults to 16%