Stop Smoking Vaccine

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 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 stop smoking vaccine has been developed by the Swiss biotechnology company Cytos that treats nicotine addiction.

You might wonder how the stop smoking vaccine work.Well the vaccine employs part of a protein that trigger an immune response to the chemical nicotine.Therefore, the formed antibodies stick to the nicotine molecules to stop them from reaching the brain.As there is no kick from the administered nicotine, the craving to smoke reduces making it much easier for chronic smokers to quit the habit.

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. Upon receiving the stop smoking vaccine, they quit the habit for at least six months. A fascinating fact is that 31% of those people who received a dummy stop smoking vaccine also happened to quit smoking.Those who developed lower levels of antibodies also quit smoking that was estimated to be 33%.

However, certain side effects such as redness and sensitivity at the injection site and also some flu-like symptoms which would generally disappear within 24 hours, are associated with the stop smoking vaccine.

The actual percentage of those who truly manage to stop smoking is very low although many chronic smokers try desperately to quit the habit.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 vaccine to stop smoking may just become a truly revolutionary treatment that will help the addictive smoker quit for good and increase the number of those who have stopped smoking once and for all.