A nicotine vaccine is coming soon

Swedish researchers have begun testing a vaccine to fight the effects of nicotine on brain cells.

Swedish researchers have begun testing a vaccine to fight the effects of nicotine on brain cells. Independent Pharmaceutica, a private pharmaceutical company based at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, is the latest unit to join the research group to develop a vaccine against nicotine.

The new vaccine will eliminate the craving of addicts by using antibodies that attack the nicotine molecule, reducing nicotine's ability to bind to brain cells. Without nicotine-neuron interaction, there will certainly be no drug addiction.

In the second phase of the vaccine trial of more than 400 people in three Nordic countries, the research team will assess the effect of the vaccine on abandoned people as well as those who want to avoid recurrence. addiction. However, the purpose of this vaccine is still to allow active smokers to quit smoking.

In the second phase of this vaccine test in 2005, the team from the Swiss Cytos Biotechnology Institute (Swiss Cytos Biotechnology) found that 42% of patients with high antibody numbers were vaccinated. -xin did not relapse after 12 months, while the placebo group had only 21%.

Cigarette smoke has more than 4,000 different substances.Nicotine plays an addictive role (Photo: http://www.nysmokefree.com)

Each year an estimated 5.4 million deaths are due to tobacco-related diseases. That means that one person dies every 8 seconds. And more importantly, the number of deaths is increasing in low-income countries.

Cigarette smoke contains plastic - a mixture of about 4,000 chemicals. 43 of these molecules were discovered by scientists to be linked to the cause of cancer, including substances such as cyanates, benzene, methanol, acetone. NO and CO are toxic gases, while nicotine is a strong addictive substance, which makes people often depend on it.

Smoking has become a major cause of disease worldwide. If the trend continues today, by 2020, the smoking rate will be higher than the rate of AIDS, tuberculosis, maternal and child mortality, traffic accidents, suicide and manslaughter. out. However, up to 30% of adults worldwide smoke cigarettes.

On average, around 5,000 billion cigarettes are sold annually in the world .