What Prompts a Smoker to Switch to Vaping?
This entry was posted on 16th June 2016 by twus.
The Roanoke Times reported on a Virginia Tech Carilion researcher sharing in a $15 million National Cancer Institute grant, a proportion of which will fund a behavioral study on e-cigs.
The grant was awarded to ten academic institutions and Warren Bickel, a behavioral health researcher, who researches why and how people make choices, will receive a $2.6 million share of the grant to test four factors influencing people’s decision to choose an electronic cigarette over a traditional combustible tobacco cigarette.
The four factors are; nicotine dose, extra costs, smoke-free environments and flavors.
“If a person gets enough nicotine, doesn’t have to pay extra taxes, can use the e-cigarette in places where conventional cigarettes are banned, and has several flavor options, perhaps the person will choose vaping over smoking,” Bickel said in a news release. “Maybe it will only take one of those variables to influence a person’s decision, and maybe that’s the first step toward managing a continuously growing public health problem.”
The research uses a new methodology called Experimental Tobacco Marketplace. Volunteers will be able to choose different types of tobacco products under various conditions.
Scientists at some other institutions will investigate the benefits and possible risks of vaporized nicotine products.
“The overarching goal is to develop forecasting models to estimate the population health impact of different product regulatory schemes,”
Bickel said, “with the result of decreasing tobacco related mortality and morbidity.”
This entry was posted on 16th June 2016 by twus.
The Roanoke Times reported on a Virginia Tech Carilion researcher sharing in a $15 million National Cancer Institute grant, a proportion of which will fund a behavioral study on e-cigs.
The grant was awarded to ten academic institutions and Warren Bickel, a behavioral health researcher, who researches why and how people make choices, will receive a $2.6 million share of the grant to test four factors influencing people’s decision to choose an electronic cigarette over a traditional combustible tobacco cigarette.
The four factors are; nicotine dose, extra costs, smoke-free environments and flavors.
“If a person gets enough nicotine, doesn’t have to pay extra taxes, can use the e-cigarette in places where conventional cigarettes are banned, and has several flavor options, perhaps the person will choose vaping over smoking,” Bickel said in a news release. “Maybe it will only take one of those variables to influence a person’s decision, and maybe that’s the first step toward managing a continuously growing public health problem.”
The research uses a new methodology called Experimental Tobacco Marketplace. Volunteers will be able to choose different types of tobacco products under various conditions.
Scientists at some other institutions will investigate the benefits and possible risks of vaporized nicotine products.
“The overarching goal is to develop forecasting models to estimate the population health impact of different product regulatory schemes,”
Bickel said, “with the result of decreasing tobacco related mortality and morbidity.”