{"id":11668,"date":"2019-02-04T10:19:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T15:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/?p=11668"},"modified":"2019-02-04T10:24:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T15:24:59","slug":"nejm-editorial-by-dr-george-oconnor-featured-in-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/2019\/02\/04\/nejm-editorial-by-dr-george-oconnor-featured-in-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"NEJM Editorial by Dr. George O&#8217;Connor featured in New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Featured in the New York Times article &#8220;E-Cigarettes Are Effective at Helping Smokers Quit, a Study Says&#8221;, the New England Journal of Medicine editorial by BU\u00a0p<span>ulmonologist\u00a0<\/span> Dr. George O&#8217;Connor and Dr.\u00a0<span>Belinda Borrelli, a behavioral health expert, &#8220;noted that 80 percent of the study participants who had quit by using e-cigarettes were still vaping at one year, while only nine percent of the nicotine replacement therapy group was still using nicotine products.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Countering the claim by other studies mentioned in the article, the editorial suggests that while cigarette use has discontinued in both groups, nicotine exposure continued at one year for 8 times as many participants using e-cigarettes opposed to nicotine replacement therapy. This &#8220;<span>raised concerns, they wrote, about sustained nicotine addiction and the unknown health consequences of long-term e-cigarette use.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/30\/health\/ecigarettes-nicotine-smoking-quit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share\">Read More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured in the New York Times article &#8220;E-Cigarettes Are Effective at Helping Smokers Quit, a Study Says&#8221;, the New England Journal of Medicine editorial by BU\u00a0pulmonologist\u00a0 Dr. George O&#8217;Connor and Dr.\u00a0Belinda Borrelli, a behavioral health expert, &#8220;noted that 80 percent of the study participants who had quit by using e-cigarettes were still vaping at one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14042,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3134,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11674,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668\/revisions\/11674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}