Wish to quit smoking may be on the way after researchers crystallized a protein that holds answers to how nicotine addiction occurs in the brain.
FDA’s onslaught of recently published e-cigarette regulations is reportedly going to create a black market given the tons of paperwork involved and the ridiculously expensive approval process for each product that costs around millions of dollars. Meanwhile, UK’s Royal College of Physicians advocate the use of e-cigarettes as tobacco substitutes and a way for smokers to quit smoking.
The UK-based Royal College of Physicians has recently published a 200-page report on Thursday advising and even recommending e-cigarettes as an effective smoking cessation aid for smokers. The report, however, contradicts earlier US findings linking vaping devices to higher likelihood of trying or going back to traditional tobacco-based smoking habit.
A study recently published in the medical journal Lancet suggests that anti-smoking cessation drugs like varenicline and bupropion are now considered safe by experts in a large international research commissioned by FDA. The two drugs, marketed as Pfizer’s Chantix and GlaxoSmithKline’s Zyban, are extremely restricted due to ‘Black Box Warning’ printed on their labels.
Even though cigarette smoking has reduced significantly in U.S. in the last ten years, it still remains a public-health hazard.
A study on stroke victims claims that the insular cortex of the brain can be targeted to help smokers quit without experiencing severe withdrawal.
The company also pointed out in a study that the number of nicotine patches it sold increased as did the number of people who attended smoking cessation sessions.
The enzyme was discovered in a bacteria that lives in the soil of tobacco fields. The bacteria uses nicotine to meet its carbon and nitrogen needs.
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A new study from Kings College London overturns prevailing notion that psychotic people were more likely to smoke.
The new study claims that marijuana was low risk compared to other substances.
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