250 volunteers to receive shots aimed at helping stamp out a difficult addiction. The University is one of nine nationwide that will test a shot that �immunizes� smokers against feeling the effects of nicotine as a way of helping them quit smoking.
The vaccine, NicVax, binds with nicotine to make a much larger molecule that can�t cross the barrier from the bloodstream into the brain, said public and community health professor Elbert Glover, who is heading the trial. As smoking becomes less pleasurable and less reinforcing, it might be easier for smokers to combat their ... |
