I have been reading the May issue of Reader's Digest. They have an article with 25 breakthroughs to improve your life.
One of them could help many of us - including you, Janet! It is called NicVax - a vaccine to help those who quit smoking stay non-smokers.
It is given as 6 monthly shots. At the end of the course of vaccines your body has antibodies that bind to nicotine when in enters the bloodstream. This makes nicotine molecules too big to cross over into the brain so you CAN'T get the buzz from smoking!
Because NicVax doesn't work on the central nervous system the article says side effects like dry mouth and sleeping problems are less likely to be problems.
This may be released in 2012 and is touted to "give smokers a fighting chance to end the addiction-relapse cycle" by Nora Volkow, MD, of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
I know Janet is starting welbutrin to help stop smoking - I hope and pray it works! This may be a tool she can use in the future to prevent relapses, as can the rest of us.
I have one aunt that I would LOVE to see get this. She fights hard to smoke as little as possible and to quit every year or two. It is just so very hard.
Most of us have a loved one or acquaintance we hope this could help.
(the article has a LOT of other cool and potentially useful stuff in it!)
One of them could help many of us - including you, Janet! It is called NicVax - a vaccine to help those who quit smoking stay non-smokers.
It is given as 6 monthly shots. At the end of the course of vaccines your body has antibodies that bind to nicotine when in enters the bloodstream. This makes nicotine molecules too big to cross over into the brain so you CAN'T get the buzz from smoking!
Because NicVax doesn't work on the central nervous system the article says side effects like dry mouth and sleeping problems are less likely to be problems.
This may be released in 2012 and is touted to "give smokers a fighting chance to end the addiction-relapse cycle" by Nora Volkow, MD, of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
I know Janet is starting welbutrin to help stop smoking - I hope and pray it works! This may be a tool she can use in the future to prevent relapses, as can the rest of us.
I have one aunt that I would LOVE to see get this. She fights hard to smoke as little as possible and to quit every year or two. It is just so very hard.
Most of us have a loved one or acquaintance we hope this could help.
(the article has a LOT of other cool and potentially useful stuff in it!)
