title: [E-cigarette and smoking cessation : current situation in Belgium].
abstract: Because of the devastating health effect of chronic burned tobacco inhalation, smoking cessation is a public health priority. After a short review of the validated pharmacological tools for smoking cessation we have analysed the clinical data obtained with the increasingly popular e-cigarette as an aid to help current smokers to quit. Although e-cigarette has not proved its effectiveness in smoking cessation yet, the public health authorities have usually adopted a pragmatic position. They recommend trying e-cigarette when validated pharmacological tools have failed in making patients abstinent, on the basis that e-cigarette is strongly assumed to be less toxic and may still help reducing the amount of smoked cigarettes.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie, CHU de Liège, Site du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgique.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bartsch
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie, CHU de Liège, Site du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgique.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Delvaux
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie, CHU de Liège, Site du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgique.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Englebert
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie, CHU de Liège, Site du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgique.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Beaupain
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie, CHU de Liège, Site du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgique.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Louis
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D066300:Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems; D006801:Humans; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*
keywords:  E;  Public health ;  Treatment of tobacco dependence ; cigarette 