Dual Use
2017
Differences between Dual Users and Switchers Center around Vaping Behavior and Its Experiences Rather than Beliefs and Attitudes
Karolien Adriaens, Dinska Van Gucht, Frank Baeyens
Published online: 23 Dec 2017
To the extent that dual users substantially lower the number of cigarettes, they will reduce health risks from smoking. However, from a medical point of view, exclusive vaping is preferable to dual use;
Differences between dual users and switchers centre around variables proximal to the vaping behaviour and its experienced effects rather than hinging on more general vaping-related beliefs and attitudes.
After e-cig initiation, dual users decreased tobacco consumption by 82% and were low-to-moderately cigarette dependent.
The two groups (dual users and switchers) reported mostly using a flavour other than tobacco.
2019
Perceived relative harm of using e-cigarettes predicts future product switching among US adult cigarette and e-cigarette dual users
Alexander Persoskie, Erin Keely O'Brien, Karl Poonai
Published online: 6 Jul 2019
Compared with those with other perceptions of e‐cigarette harm, dual users who perceived e‐cigarettes as less harmful than cigarettes were more likely to become exclusive e‐cigarette users 1 year later.
Vaping patterns, nicotine dependence and reasons for vaping among American Indian dual users of cigarettes and electronic cigarettes
Dorothy A Rhoades, Ashley L Comiford, Justin D Dvorak, Kai Ding, Michelle Hopkins, Paul Spicer, Theodore L Wagener, Mark P Doescher
Published online: 2 Sep 2019
…the ten-item Penn State Dependence Index (PSDI) suggested greater dependence on smoking than vaping
The most common reasons for vaping were to reduce smoking (79%), enjoyment of flavors (78%), and ability to vape where smoking is not allowed (73%). Perceptions of less harm to others (69%) or to self were the next most common (65%). Fewer than half used ECs to reduce stress, for affordability, or because others used them.