Health Nordic scientists start trial on nicotine vaccine

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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Nordic scientists have launched a trial on a vaccine designed to help smokers kick the world's deadliest habit by depriving them of one of its chief pleasures, the firm that owns the vaccine said on Tuesday.

Independent Pharmaceutica, a private company based at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute and founded in 1997 by Professor Torgny Svensson, joins a growing line-up of biotech companies seeking to develop an anti-nicotine shot.

Its researchers say the vaccine eliminates the quick high smokers relish by creating antibodies that bind to nicotine molecules, making them too bulky to enter the brain.

Once the high is gone, the argument goes, so is the main cause of addiction.

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Asehujiko

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Another moron who got his degree in a box of cereals. People become addicted because of the addictive substances, not the ones that make you feel high.

It's like paying taxes without getting hospitals/policestations/firedepartments in return.
 

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Another moron who got his degree in a box of cereals. People become addicted because of the addictive substances, not the ones that make you feel high.

It's like paying taxes without getting hospitals/policestations/firedepartments in return.

You may be the one getting your degree out of cereals :p

Nicotine is what makes you addicted to it. If they make nicotine unable to enter the brain , it kills off addiction. Therefore you can quit easily.
 

WastedSavior

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You'd still got through the pains of withdrawal, but it would just mean that if you did slip and decide to smoke.. it wouldn't help, and would be pointless.

Quite clever, i'd love to see this turn out. :eek:
 
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