Department of Health Promotion, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, Maastricht, 6200 MD, The Netherlands.
Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Postbus 1, Bilthoven, BA 3720, The Netherlands.
Health Educ Res. 2023 Mar 23;38(2):150-162. doi: 10.1093/her/cyad004.
The effectiveness of e-cigarettes in smoking cessation is under debate. Informing smokers who are motivated to quit smoking about e-cigarettes may help them to make an informed decision about their use for smoking cessation, which, however, may also lead to unintended effects such as less quitting. This experimental study assessed the influence of providing tailored information about e-cigarettes in a web-based tailored smoking cessation intervention on participants' decision-making and smoking behavior. Adult smokers (N = 331) were randomized into a personalized eHealth intervention on (i) smoking cessation (control condition) or (ii) smoking cessation and information about e-cigarettes (intervention condition). Directly postintervention, participants in the intervention condition had more knowledge about e-cigarettes than participants in the control condition. Attitudes toward e-cigarettes were more positive among intervention participants than control participants, but the differences in attitude were less pronounced than the differences in knowledge and not consistent across items. At a 6-month follow-up, no between-condition differences were observed in the use of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation method, the number of tobacco cigarettes smoked in the past 7 days, or other smoking outcomes.
电子烟戒烟效果存在争议。向有戒烟意愿的吸烟者提供电子烟相关信息，可能有助于他们在使用电子烟戒烟方面做出明智的决定，但也可能带来意想不到的效果，例如戒烟率降低。本实验研究评估了在基于网络的个性化戒烟干预中提供个性化电子烟信息对参与者决策和吸烟行为的影响。将成年吸烟者（N=331）随机分为个性化电子健康干预组（i）戒烟（对照组）或（ii）戒烟和电子烟信息（干预组）。干预组的参与者在干预后直接获得了更多关于电子烟的知识，而对照组的参与者则没有。干预组的参与者对电子烟的态度比对照组的参与者更为积极，但这种态度差异不如知识差异明显，且在不同项目之间并不一致。在 6 个月的随访中，在使用电子烟作为戒烟方法、过去 7 天内吸烟的香烟数量或其他吸烟结果方面，干预组和对照组之间没有差异。
