Let’s face it…there is no easy way to stop smoking. But in today’s society, with all the research being conducted, there is finally hope for those battling with nicotine addiction. Researchers all over the world have been doing clinical trials for work on new vaccine that would help people to stop smoking. If all goes well, these new procedures would prevent the nicotine from ever traveling all the way to the brain’s receptors, which produce an instant and false calming effect for the body. A smoking vaccine would prevent any type of crossing of the blood-brain barrier so that the smoker would never be able to be fully satisfied by the chemicals in the cigarettes. If the mind is not comforted by the nicotine, there would be no reason to smoke from a chemical standpoint. It would just be a matter of putting something to your lips.
Most ‘stop smoking aids’ simply provide a temporary solution to a long-standing problem. They usually focus on the oral fixation aspect, providing something to be chewed or puffed, rather than something that will help to adjust the body’s chemistry overall. Additionally, when trying to stop smoking, many people end up relapsing, because, even after not smoking for years, there is something that can trigger the desire to light up again. It all begins and ends with the brain, and so a good deal of training is involved in order for those signals to stop. It needs some type of training to turn off the need to want to be stimulated. If a person chooses to stop smoking immediately, they often will find comfort in other methods, with the results being as mundane as bouts of excessive eating, to quite severe with stronger substance addictions like cocaine.
A smoking vaccine would not be a cure-all for those addicted to nicotine, but it is certainly a healthy place to start. Counseling and other stop smoking aids might be combined with such a thing to ensure that those mental cravings never return.