On the very day it bans 800 more flavoured vaping products, the FDA pushes nicotine patches as the best way to quit smoking.
It’s a slap in the face to say the least to the millions of vapers in America, and of course the wider vaping industry.
The science has told us that nicotine patches and gums simply don’t work anywhere nearly as effective as vaping in quit bids – if at all.
I revealed that bombshell in the article: Do Nicotine Patches and Gums Work For Quitting Smoking? Not According to Scientists
In that piece I showed how far from helping smokers quit, patches were seen by Big Tobacco and Pharma as a temporary bridge.
Smokers tended to use them predominantly where they couldn’t smoke, or as ‘dual use‘ and success was rare, if at all, unless the smoker received individual counseling.
Not only that, they cynically described patches being sold over the counter as nothing more than a ‘business opportunity‘.
A clear case of kill and cure, and in 1996 that came to fruition when patches were approved by the FDA to be sold over the counter.
Is Synthetic Nicotine the Answer?
ALL of those MDO’s were flavoured which industry insiders say is a clear indication that only tobacco and menthol flavours will be left standing after the PMTA process concludes.
FDA Pushes Nicotine Patches
As I said at the start, the FDA really did choose today to push nicotine patches as the best way to quit smoking.