How Effective Is The Stop Smoking Vaccine

November 7, 2009 · Filed Under Quit Smoking 

If you are a heavy smoker, you are probably aware of the body's addiction to smoking cigarettes and nicotine cravings.What if you are trying to control the habit and are looking for smoking quit tips to cut down on smoking, this will help you improve your health as well. There are several products to help you with this although the stop smoking vaccine that stops you smoking because you no longer get a  kick  from the nicotine is becoming a reality.The Swiss biotechnology company Cytos which develops products to treat nicotine addiction developed the stop smoking vaccine.

How does the stop smoking vaccine work you might wonder.Well the vaccine employs part of a protein that trigger an immune response to the chemical nicotine.To prevent the nicotine from getting through to the brain, the antibodies bind to the nicotine.The incentive to smoke weakens as there isn't a  high  from the nicotine therefore making it much easier for addictive smokers to give up tobacco.

In the study conducted by Prof. Dr. Jacques Cornuz of University Hospital Lausanne, revealed that 57% of smokers who received the stop smoking vaccine achieved high levels of antibodies against nicotine. After the smokers received the stop smoking vaccine, they stopped smoking completely for at least six months. It is interesting to see that 31% of the people who was given a mock stop smoking vaccine also stopped smoking.Even 33% of the individuals who developed lower antibody levels quit smoking.

However, there are some minor side effects of the stop smoking vaccine that is redness and tenderness at the injection site while some experienced flu-like symptoms but that was resolved within 24 hours.

Although the addictive smoker has attempted to quit smoking numerous times, the percentage of those who actually manage to quit and become smoke free is still pretty low.Many of them attempt nicotine replacement therapy, counseling and sometimes antidepressants but only one in every 20 smokers succeeds in quitting in the long run.

Certain other companies ,apart from Cytos , such as Xenova Group,Nabi Biopharmaceuticals and Prommune also are working on a vaccine to stop smoking. The stop smoking vaccine may just be the truly revolutionary product we were looking for that allows the chronic smoker to quit smoking for good and in turn increase the number of individuals who stopped smoking completely.

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