Quitting smoking after a few years will be much easier. You do not even need to willpower. Smokers do just one shot, and they no longer reach for cigarettes.
Nicotine vaccine developed by American scientists from the University of Weil-Cornell. They have tested its effect on mice. It remains to await the outcome of clinical trials of the drug in humans.
The vaccine helps give up smoking It contains genes that produce the antibody. They block the nicotine before he enters the brain and cause a pleasant feeling, based, primarily, on the curve.
"People just do not enjoy smoking, so much easier to get rid of this bad habit," - said Dr. Ronald Crystal, one of the sponsors.
He is sure that this medicine will save the lives of millions of people. The results of experiments in mice indicate that the antibodies inhibit 85% of the nicotine. At the same time the behavior of rodents, their blood pressure and heart rate is not affected.
If the tests of the vaccine on humans will give good results, it will be possible to chop even young children - for the prevention of the desire to smoke. Testing the drug on humans will begin in 2014. Scientists themselves are not yet in a hurry to make optimistic forecasts. They remind us that not always what works in mice as effectively in humans.
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