TY - JOUR AU - Caponnetto, P. AU - Russo, C. AU - Bruno, C.M. AU - Alamo, A. AU - Amaradio, M.D. AU - Polosa, R. PY - 2015/11/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Electronic cigarette: a possible substitute for cigarette dependence JF - Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease JA - Monaldi Arch Chest Dis VL - 79 IS - 1 SE - Reviews DO - 10.4081/monaldi.2013.104 UR - https://www.monaldi-archives.org/macd/article/view/104 SP - AB - Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of premature mortality in western countries and it is important for smokers to stop as early as possible. Electronic cigarettes are a popular phenomenon of global proportion. Recent uncontrolled studies, reported that a certain number of smokers have quit using electronic cigarettes. This could hint a role for electronic cigarettes to be used for smoking cessation, and therefore merits further evaluation for this purpose. Besides vaporising nicotine to be inhaled, electronic cigarettes may also provide a coping mechanism for conditioned smoking cues by replacing some of the rituals associated with smoking gestures, and for these reasons cigarette could become a tool – if studied more extensively – in the fight against tobacco-related morbidity and mortality. ER -