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E-Cigarettes May Match The Patch In Helping Smokers Quit : Shots - Health News : NPR
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    Electronic cigarettes are sparking lots of skepticism from public health types worried they may be a gateway to regular smoking.

    But the cigarettes, which use water vapor to deliver nicotine into the lungs, may be as good as the patch when it comes to stop-smoking aids, a study finds.

    Smokers who used e-cigarettes in an attempt to quit the old-fashioned kind of cigarettes did about as well at stopping smoking as the people who tried the patch.