Nicotine

Kick Smoking with Nicotine Drink

First it was the nicotine patch, then came the gum, inhalers and other products intended to help smokers kick the habit by getting over their nicotine fixation. The new kid on the block in this ever increasing list is a nicotine solution that can be mixed with drinks, which scientists claim could be useful in over coming the addiction. Researchers at Duke University have tested and pate...

FDA considers nicotine lollipops illegal

The Food and Drug Administration cracked down on Internet distributors of nicotine-laced lollipops and lip balm, declaring them illegal and ordering that 4 pharmacies stop sales immediately. The lollipops in particular pose a risk to children because they look like regular candy, the FDA warned. "The quantity of nicotine could be potentially dangerous to a small child," said FDA attorney David Ho...

Accomplishment of nicotine replacement therapy

Based on a new survey, sales of nicotine replacement have increased but are less effective than before. One can get nicotine replacement therapy (NRT)// over the counter, without having to consult your doctor. On the face of it, this sounds like a good move. Make NRT more accessible and more people will use it, and more will quit smoking. Researchers at the University of California, S...

Teens Misusing Nicotine-Replacement Products

New survey results suggest a small number of teenagers, including non-smokers, are misusing nicotine patches and gum. The authors of the study warn the teens could be setting themselves up for health trouble if they smoke and use the patch or gum at the same time or if they use the products to maintain their nicotine levels. But an expert on the psychology //of smoking says the students ma...

Catherine Zeta wants to give up nicotine cravings

London:: Hollywood actress Catherine Zeta Jones has made a New Year's resolution to get rid of her nicotine cravings, because she is afraid of the impact her deadly habit will have on her growing kids. // The 36-year-old beauty, is concerned because her two children, Dylan-five and two-year-old Cary are approaching an impressionable age, when kids become curious to know about every l...

Free nicotine patches to quit smoking

Australian Health minister Stephen Robertson has announced that patients coming to Queensland Public hospital will receive free nicotine patches //or gums in order to start awareness to quit smoking. This free nicotine replacement program will help the public to relieve from their smoking habit which is one of the leading cause of preventable death. Smoking has the dubious distinction of affectin...

Nicotine Vaccine May Help Smokers To Quit Smoking

A new nicotine vaccine might help smokers to quit smoking, an American biotechnology company that has developed it claims//. Nabi Biopharmaceuticals has developed 'NicVax' which the company said works by producing antibodies that specifically bind to nicotine, and thereby prevent much of the nicotine from entering the brain, reported the health portal HealthDayNews. This proce...

Nicotine patches instead of cigarettes – New Year resolutio

A new resolution has been passed in United Kingdom which allows prescription of nicotine patches to children’s above the age of 12 and pregnant women as the risk associated with smoking is higher than the danger // associated with nicotine patches as earlier the sale of nicotine patches was not allowed to children’s, pregnant and breast feeding women and people with chronic diseases such as heart...

Nicotine Patches help to quit smoking

Using nicotine patches two weeks increases the chances of quitting smoking as the presence of nicotine from the patch makes the body not interested in the tobacco from inhaled source leading to loss of interest in smoking and the // intention to quit smoking increases and the researchers have reported their finding in the Journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research. Researchers have also found no serio...

Reliable Help For Smokers From Nicotine Patches and Former Smokers

Orlando: According to researchers, the support from a group of ex-smokers combined with nicotine patch, may be a good way to assist women smokers in public houses , to kick the habit. // Dr. Jeanette Andrews, nursing professor at the Medical College of Georgia observed 103 women smokers. About 50% of them were asked to use nicotine patch and behavioral treatment from nurses combined wi...

So Called Benefits of Nicotine

Philip Morris the present American tobacco giant says that smoking does not cause damage to fertility. Some of the pro-smoking campaigners declare that smoking can fight disease //. Sophie Goodchild and Martin Hodgson report clearly states that these are the new marketing strategies, which the cigarette company has adopted to conquer new markets and play down the risks. Recently they have also ex...

Research Finds That Nicotine Hastens The Growth Of Lung Cancer

Research from the University of South Florida has reported that nicotine would directly act by speeding the growth of lung cancer.// They explained in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, that tobacco smoke contains many agents that cause cancer, and that nicotine itself isn't one of them but they stated that nicotine promotes the growth of existing cancer cells....

Is Nicotine Lozenge A Safe Smoking Cessation Product?

Nicotine lozenge releases a dose of nicotine and is one of the important products among those that are used to quit smoking.// The federal government has announced that it no longer requires a prescription in Canada. The lozenges are to join nicotine patches, gums and inhalers and become available over the counter. This decision was taken because the government said that the prescriptio...

Nicotine - New Role in Prevention of Parkinson’s Diseas

Recent studies show that brain damage similar to that which occurs in Parkinson’s disease and be prevented by nicotine treatment. In this study, the laboratory animals// were treated with MPTP; an agent causing gradual loss of brain functions, a condition typical of Parkinson’s disease. Nicotine was chronically administered to some of the test animals for a period of 6months while the others were...

Chantix: Disenchanting Smokers from Nicotine

The drug licensing body in America has approved the new anti-smoking drug called Chantix, which acts by imitating the effect of nicotine on the body//. Research on the effects of this drug on its users showed that almost half of the users were able to completely quit smoking, which has prompted the European regulators to consider its use in United Kingdom. The drug, which will be ma...

Researchers Locate Genetic Link for Nicotine Dependence Among African Americans

Scientists at the University of Virginia Health System have identified, for the first time ever, several genetic regions that are likely to carry the genes for nicotine// dependence (ND) in an African American population. This is the first genome-wide study of such linkage and included the largest group of African Americans to participate in this type of linkage study. Until this study, participa...

Genes for Nicotine Dependence Identified

Genetic factors play an important role in the continuing addiction to cigarettes, suggest scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.// Results of two studies show that certain genetic variations can influence smoking behaviors and contribute to a person's risk for nicotine dependence. Scientists suggest that these smoking-related genes may facilitate...

Lung Cancer Surgeries Doesn’t Help Breaking Nicotine Dependence in Smoker

A new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have found out that successful lung cancer// surgery does not help in breaking the nicotine dependence in many smokers. This study published in the December issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, is the first to look at smoking relapse among people who were "forced" to quit due to impending surgery. Th...

India to Set Up Nicotine-Mapping Laboratory

India will soon set up a laboratory of international standards to test the percentage of nicotine in tobacco products made in the country //or coming from outside to help in the fight against tobacco-related diseases, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said Tuesday. The tobacco-testing laboratory is to come up in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in collaboration with the Atlanta-based Center for Dis...

Nicotine Dependence Gene Mapped to Chromosome 5

Genes that appear to increase the risk of nicotine dependence are likely to be found on several locations, including a region of chromosome 5//, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in Biological Psychiatry. “These data add to the growing evidence for specific locations for genes that influence risk for nicotine dependence,” said Joel Gelernter, professor of psychiatry, geneti...

11 Percent Increase of Addictive Nicotine in Cigarettes: Report

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health having done a reanalysis of nicotine yield from major brand name cigarettes sold in Massachusetts //from 1997 to 2005 confirmed that manufacturers have steadily increased the levels of this agent in cigarettes. This independent analysis, based on data submitted to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) by the manufact...

Like Regular Cigarettes, Low Nicotine Ones also Not Good for Heart

A study of 62 youngsters has revealed that low tar, low nicotine cigarettes impair blood flow through the heart as severely as regular cigarettes . All the participants in the study, published ahead of print in the journal Heart, were in their mid-twenties. Twenty of them had smoked low tar, low nicotine cigarettes for at least three years, while 20 other participants...

Fight Nicotine With Brisk Walking

“Withdrawal symptoms related to smoking can be better handled with walking”, says a research finding. This was published in the medical// journal Addiction. Dr. Adrian Taylor from University of Exeter who is the lead author of this study revealed that moderate exercise certainly had a better effect on people who are keen to quit smoking. He also added that if the same effect was found...

Mechanism of Nicotine's Learning Effects Explored

Despite the known fact that nicotine is highly addictive, researchers have found that it also enhance learning and memory. An effort has been initiated// to develop nicotine-like drugs to treat cognitive deficits in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, schizophrenia, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. A key problem in designing such drugs has been that little was known abo...

Reduction in Nicotine Craving Predicts Ability to Quit

The stronger the reduction in nicotine craving after smoking the first cigarette in the morning, the more difficult it will be to quit smoking//, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. In a study of 207 smokers, the researchers found significant reductions in craving, withdrawal and mood after smoking the first cigarette of the day. The greater th...

Ozzy Found Nicotine Addiction Hardest to Quit

Rock star Ozzy Osbourne says that getting rid of smoking was more difficult for him than to conquer his addictions to drugs and alcohol . The former hellraiser, who quit his nicotine addiction in the late 1990s, is satisfied that he has not gotten hooked to smoking again.He revealed that before he had kicked the butt, he used to cover himself with nicotine patches....

Perrigo Receives FDA Approval to Market Coated Fruit Nicotine Gum

The Perrigo Company today announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market over-the-counter coated nicotine polacrilex gum USP, 2 mg (coated fruit) and 4 mg (coated fruit). The product will be marketed under store brand labels and is comparable to GlaxoSmithKline's Nicorette(R) Fruit Chill(TM) coated gum, which is an aid to smoking...

Reduction in Nicotine Craving Predicts Ability to Quit

The stronger the reduction in nicotine craving after smoking the first cigarette in the morning, the more difficult it will be to quit smoking , according to a Yale School of Medicine study in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. In a study of 207 smokers, the researchers found significant reductions in craving, withdrawal and mood after smoking the first cigarette of the day. The greater t...

Pubs Propose to Sell Nicotine Gum Patches

Britain- The pub hopes to benefit from the ban on smoking and they are already stocking on nicotine patches and gums for the success of the ban. The Smoking ban, in public places, which comes into effect from July 1st, has ample support from the public of Britain. Three quarter of the population back it. Many leading firms are looking for an opening in areas where smokers are most lik...

Just One Cigarette can Cause Nicotine Addiction

Massachusetts University researchers say that the symptoms of nicotine addiction can appear even when youth are smoking as little as one cigarette per month. In a study, published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, the researchers found that 10 per cent of youth become addicted to nicotine within two days of first inhaling from a cigarette, and 25 per cent are ad...