February 2022 with Professor Billie Bonevski

Let's talk e-cigarettes

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Nicola Lindson discuss emerging evidence in e-cigarette research and interview Professor Billie Bonevski. In this episode Assistant Professor Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Dr Nicola Lindson discuss the emerging evidence in e-cigarette research and interview Professor Billie Bonevski. This podcast is a companion to the electronic cigarettes Cochrane living systematic review and shares the evidence from the monthly searches. In the February episode Dr Nicola Lindson talks with Professor Billie Bonevski, Professor of Public Health, Flinders University, South Australia. Professor Billie Bonevski discusses her Team's QuiENDS pilot trial of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation among people in alcohol and other drug treatment. Professor Bonevski discusses e-cigarettes as a harm reduction tool and as part of a solution to high levels of smoking and very low or non-existent rates of quitting seen in this group. The study looks at people using e-cigarettes to quit abruptly or to reducing more gradually. Going forward work has started on the follow up Harmony Trial. Jamie and Nicola also bring us up to date with the literature search conducted on February 1st 2022. The February search found 2 ongoing studies and 2 records linked to a studies already included the review. We will include the studies we have found in future updates of the Cochrane review.