Most people who vape want to give up e-cigarettes, new research reveals.
About 10 million American adults - plus some 3.6 million teenagers - use e-cigarettes, which are intended to help adult smokers quit, but may be addicting themselves.
And most people who use e-cigarettes don't make a full switch, instead using both traditional and electronic cigarettes.
But more than 60 percent would like to put down both products for good, according to new Rutgers University research.
Vaping has surged in popularity in recent years, but 60 percent of adult users now want to quit nicotine-delivery devices, according to new Rutgers University research (file)
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has but a target on the back of the e-cigarette industry, as more and more teens have gotten hooked on vaping and, especially, 'Juuling.'
Yet more and more middle- and high school-age children keep taking up e-cigarettes, as do adults.
The devices took awhile to catch on. The first e-cigarette was invented in 2003 in China, but the devices wouldn't become mainstream for over a decade.
Since, however, they've become their own cultural meme, with use tripling among middle and high school students.
Among adults, use rates have doubled since 2012.
Although e-cigarettes are intended to help people quit smoking, they are more often used in addition to combustible tobacco.
'Most of the discussion about e-cigarettes has focused on the relative harm as compared to traditional cigarettes, the efficacy of e-cigarettes as a cessation device, and the alarming increase of their use in children,' said co-author of the new Rutgers study, Marc Steinberg, an associate professor of psychiatry there.
However, in 2015, for example, nearly 60 percent of adults that used e-cigarettes also smoked.
And a small percentage of people
