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. 2021 May;36(5):1481-1483.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-06408-7. Epub 2021 Feb 9.

E-Cigarettes Versus Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Smoking Cessation : Hajek P, Phillips-waller A, Przulj D, et al. A Randomized Trial of E-Cigarettes versus Nicotine-Replacement Therapy. N Engl J Med. 2019;380(7):629-637

Christopher D Jackson  1 , Jocelyn Carter  2 , Devan Kansagara  3
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E-Cigarettes Versus Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Smoking Cessation : Hajek P, Phillips-waller A, Przulj D, et al. A Randomized Trial of E-Cigarettes versus Nicotine-Replacement Therapy. N Engl J Med. 2019;380(7):629-637

Christopher D Jackson et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 May.
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The authors declare that they do not have a conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
One-year abstinence rates among patients trying to quit smoking using e-cigarettes versus nicotine replacement therapy. *The relative risk for abstinence at 1 year with EC versus NRT was 1.83 (95% CI 1.30–2.58).
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  • A Randomized Trial of E-Cigarettes versus Nicotine-Replacement Therapy.
    Hajek P, Phillips-Waller A, Przulj D, Pesola F, Myers Smith K, Bisal N, Li J, Parrott S, Sasieni P, Dawkins L, Ross L, Goniewicz M, Wu Q, McRobbie HJ. Hajek P, et al. N Engl J Med. 2019 Feb 14;380(7):629-637. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1808779. Epub 2019 Jan 30. N Engl J Med. 2019. PMID: 30699054 Clinical Trial.

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