Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Nicola Lindson discuss emerging evidence in e-cigarette research. Ailsa Butler interviews Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, Yale School of Medicine, USA.
In this episode Associate Professor Nicola Lindson, University of Oxford, and Associate Professor Jamie Hartman-Boyce, UMass, discuss emerging evidence in e-cigarette research and Dr Ailsa Butler, University of Oxford, interviews Dr Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, USA.
Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin talks to Ailsa Butler at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Europe conference in Paris about her research on vaping cessation. Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin discusses Kick-Nic, a smartphone app-based behavioural intervention to help young people stop vaping, which also addresses cannabis and other tobacco use. Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin also shares findings from her team's studies of behavioural and financial incentives for vaping cessation, as well as research showing high levels of cotinine-a marker of nicotine exposure-among adults who vape. Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin emphasises the need for a balanced approach: while vaping can be an important harm-reduction tool for people who smoke combustible cigarettes, it is also important to recognise and respond to the different needs of young people.
This podcast is a companion to the electronic cigarettes Cochrane living systematic review and Interventions for quitting vaping review and shares the evidence from the monthly searches.
Our searches for the EC for smoking cessation review carried out on 1st August and 1st September 2026 found: 2 new studies (10.1002/cpdd.724; NCT04019626) and 3 linked reports (10.1111/add.70456; 10.3310/GJLD1918; 10.1093/ntr/ntag176).
Our search for our interventions for quitting vaping review carried out on 1st August and 1st September found: 8 new ongoing studies (10.1136/bmjopen-2025-110992; NCT06965296; NCT07145866; NCT07210268; NCT07694492; NCT07739706; NCT07786896; NCT07754578) and 4 linked reports (10.3390/healthcare14142055; 10.1177/29768357261481840; 10.1136/tc-2025-060006; 10.1016/j.cct.2026.108416).
For further details see our webpage under 'Monthly search findings':
https://www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/research/electronic-cigarettes-for-smoking-cessation-cochrane-living-systematic-review-1
For more information on the full Cochrane review of E-cigarettes for smoking cessation updated in August 2026 see: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010216.pub11/full
For more information on the full Cochrane review of Interventions for quitting vaping published in November 2025 see: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD016058.pub3/full
