Do One Shot and Quit Smoking

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Updated: 11/11/2009 11:01 am

If you've ever tried to give up smoking, you know how hard it can be. Someone who has never smoked cannot understand how tough it is.

Nicotine gum....the nicotine patch....hypnosis....the buddy system...cold turkey. How many ways can there be to kick the habit?

Maybe we can add one more: a vaccine.

Health experts tell us that half a million Americans die every year from complications due to smoking.

Dr. Nora Volkow of the National Institute on Drug Abuse says so many people have quit...for a while. "Seventy percent of these individuals that want to stop smoking, relapse within a one year period."

But Dr. Volkow sees some hope in a new vaccine from Nabi Biopharmaceuticals. Her institute gave Nabi ten million dollars for more research.

The vaccine is called Nicvax and it's designed to prevent nictotine from reaching your brain. Without nicotine in the brain, the smoker fails to enjoy the "high" that causes addiction.

Nabi Biopharmaceuticals has been testing several different vaccines and a third of those tested managed to quit.

More trials have begun and a thousand volunteers are trying Nicvax across the country.

Imagine, a shot at the doctor's office and you've kicked the habit.


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Gryluv - 11/13/2009 7:25 AM
Yea and I Have some Beach front land in florida Everglades for sale

dewey - 11/11/2009 10:57 PM
slam330, it will only work IF YOU WANT IT TO WORK...I was addicted for over 30 years, until I one day said I don't want to be addicted anymore.I'm retired now, but the last few years I worked, my job required extensive airline travel.The withdrawl from nicotine on even short duration domestic flights was terrible, and I thought soon the no-smoking policy would also apply to overseas flights.It's 14 hours from USA to Tokyo, how would you like to be without that poison for 14 hours?....Well, to make a long story shorter, I decided to quit by tapering off, but not too slowly,also I used smokeless tobacco in between, (also nasty) but found by a urine test that it put more nicotine in my blood than cigarettes did. Quitting was the hardest thing I ever had to do, but it is WORTH IT! Especially now at 5 dollars a pack.I wish you the best of luck, and if you can get rid of the dreaded stuff for three weeks, you should be able to make it IF YOU WANT TO.I have not smoked anything (except the nasty 2nd hand stuff, which you will learn to HATE after a year) since 1994.Thank God I quit that year, since I would not have been able to handle the quadruple bypass in 97....most likely necessitated by my previous nasty habit.Again, good luck....you seem like you are sincere.

fed up - 11/11/2009 4:40 PM
I hope this really works for lots of people, including my wife, if I can only get her to try it when it becomes available!

dantheman - 11/11/2009 1:02 PM
that's great if it works, and doesn't cost you an arm and leg.

slam330 - 11/11/2009 12:14 PM
if this works where do i sine up.
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