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NEW VACCINE MAY HELP YOU TO QUIT SMOKING
Posted by brian yaeger on 10/23/2014 to Electronic Cigarette News & Story's
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New Vaccine May Alleviate Nicotine Addiction
A professor at Virginia Tech. may have come up with a solution to all of our nicotine problems. Mike Zhang, professor of biological systems engineering was awarded 2.4 million to conduct studies and test this new vaccine on mice.
Here is a little tidbit of what exactly the article said:
"Nicotine is one of the most dependency inducing drugs out there," said Zhang, "It's just as addictive as much harder drugs such as h*roine or c*caine. When someone smokes, the brain makes more dopamine in response to receiving the nicotine. Over time your body needs more nicotine just to feel normal and that's when addiction occurs. By using this vaccine to block the pleasure response, a person addicted to nicotine will be much more likely to quit smoking or consuming tobacco products."
Cigarette smoke contains 250 chemicals known to be toxic and smoking is the most significant source of preventable disease and premature death worldwide. Smoking-related diseases claim an estimated 443,000 American lives each year and in the United States about 8.6 million people have at least one serious illness caused by smoking, according to the American Lung Association.
Zhang's research could offer the millions of smokers in the United States — and the estimated 1 billion smokers worldwide that suffer from nicotine addiction — another tool for kicking the nicotine habit.
He is performing the research in conjunction with Marion Ehrich, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, and Dr. Paul Pentel, a professor of medicine and pharmacology at the University of Minnesota.
To read more please visit: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-10/vt-vfn102014.php
Posted by brian yaeger on 10/23/2014 to Electronic Cigarette News & Story's
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Posted by brian yaeger on 10/23/2014 to Electronic Cigarette News & Story's
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New Vaccine May Alleviate Nicotine Addiction
A professor at Virginia Tech. may have come up with a solution to all of our nicotine problems. Mike Zhang, professor of biological systems engineering was awarded 2.4 million to conduct studies and test this new vaccine on mice.
Here is a little tidbit of what exactly the article said:
"Nicotine is one of the most dependency inducing drugs out there," said Zhang, "It's just as addictive as much harder drugs such as h*roine or c*caine. When someone smokes, the brain makes more dopamine in response to receiving the nicotine. Over time your body needs more nicotine just to feel normal and that's when addiction occurs. By using this vaccine to block the pleasure response, a person addicted to nicotine will be much more likely to quit smoking or consuming tobacco products."
Cigarette smoke contains 250 chemicals known to be toxic and smoking is the most significant source of preventable disease and premature death worldwide. Smoking-related diseases claim an estimated 443,000 American lives each year and in the United States about 8.6 million people have at least one serious illness caused by smoking, according to the American Lung Association.
Zhang's research could offer the millions of smokers in the United States — and the estimated 1 billion smokers worldwide that suffer from nicotine addiction — another tool for kicking the nicotine habit.
He is performing the research in conjunction with Marion Ehrich, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, and Dr. Paul Pentel, a professor of medicine and pharmacology at the University of Minnesota.
To read more please visit: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-10/vt-vfn102014.php
Posted by brian yaeger on 10/23/2014 to Electronic Cigarette News & Story's
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