The goal of this paper is to investigate and critically discuss how the use of e-cigarettes help in providing a pathway away from the barriers affecting smokers and their ability to quit smoking traditional tobacco products. Firstly this paper will briefly discuss New Zealand smoking statistics and the clinical health issues of the effects of traditional tobacco use in comparison to e-cigarettes. Secondly, it will show how using the PECOT (Whitehead, 2013) model, I was able to refi…