Online Help Required
A researcher from Keele University is asking for vapers to help with an online study
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by Dave Cross
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Mark explains: “The aim of this study is to understand the role of e-cigarettes in your everyday life. Most research so far, has been focused on how e-cigarettes can help people stop smoking. This is important research but there has been less work on how people feel about e-cigarettes, especially if they have helped long-term smokers stop smoking. Therefore, with this project I want to understand what e-cigarettes mean to people who use them and how they have changed peoples’ lives.”
He is interested in the views from members of the POTV forum and recipients of the newsletter and also from anyone else with an interest in vaping.
If you decide to participate the questionnaire is linked to below. You will be asked a series of questions about what e-cigarettes mean to you and how their use has changed your everyday life. Mark is particularly interested in the emotional significance of e-cigarettes in people’s lives, so it would be great if you were able to write about any emotions you associate with e-cigarette use. Some of these experiences might be quite personal and sensitive, you are free to skip questions or withdraw from answering altogether if you would prefer not to answer. Mark says: “You can spend as much time as you wish on the questionnaire, but if you were able to spend about 30 minutes, and include as much detail as possible, that would be great.”
The identity and personal information from all respondents will be kept completely confidential. The analysis will be written up for presentations, academic papers and funding reports, and direct quotes from responses may be included, but they will not be identifiable and will be attributed to a fake name.
Mark adds: “By taking part, you will be providing valuable information to help understand the significance of e-cigarettes in people’s lives.”
If you have any questions you can contact Mark via his details on the page linked below.
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Dave Cross
Journalist at POTVDave is a freelance writer; with articles on music, motorbikes, football, pop-science, vaping and tobacco harm reduction in Sounds, Melody Maker, UBG, AWoL, Bike, When Saturday Comes, Vape News Magazine, and syndicated across the Johnston Press group. He was published in an anthology of “Greatest Football Writing”, but still believes this was a mistake. Dave contributes sketches to comedy shows and used to co-host a radio sketch show. He’s worked with numerous start-ups to develop content for their websites.
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