Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Smoking cessation: old problem, but also new problems (a)

by:iriart

If you are a smoker, do not need someone to tell you its disadvantages. Why do you not to quit » Why is everyone still smoking »

Feel good because of smoking. It stimulated and the brain can also get relief and satisfaction. The nicotine contained in tobacco addiction in the course of immediate release of dopamine and other chemical substances and the impact of rapid brain pleasure center. Tobacco smoke inhaled nicotine stimulate the brain is the quickest and most effective way.



"I fully understand why you can not quit it,"the U.S. National Institutes of Health researcher David addiction. Abrams, said: "In fact, nicotine kick than heroin or cocaine more difficult to quit."

Smoking "hijacking"of your brain reward system that drives you to seek food, water, and the ability, Dr. Abrams explained that the drive to drive you to the same sense of urgency to seek nicotine. "Do you think that the brain, which is necessary for survival,"he said.



Nicotine addiction on everyone's level is different. Many people do not smoke, because they do not like from the start. And some "free", they occasionally smoking, but it seems that the smoke has never been "Gouzhu."But the majority of smokers will eventually have to suction all day, every day absorption.

In the discovery of the new genetics may explain why some people will be smoking as a hobby and finally indulged in them. Some people, for example, to make a gene encoding the enzyme from them to quickly get rid of nicotine in the blood, but they tend to be more absorption of smoking tobacco and its development to be more strongly. Others in the brain of nicotine and strong reliance on additional and special receptors, their smoking and its strong, which makes very difficult to quit smoking.



Some manufacturers are using the scientific principles addiction to create a new treatment to help smokers quit. As of the drugs used to stop smoking 10 years ago must first be approved, the so-called Chantix. In the prescription provided by the active ingredients, that is, Cchantix disguised as well occupy the nicotine in the brain of nicotine receptor, it may reduce the cravings. 1 to the real nicotine, can not find enough spare receptor to play its role. Chantix seems than Zyban (an antidepressant, to balance the level of dopamine) has a high success rate. The recently published to help smokers quit the federal guidelines doctors that the drug, the combination of nicotine substitutes and the use of nicotine nasal spray or the chewing gum and nicotine than the simple use of alternatives to long-term smoking cessation would be better Effect.



Doctors have written the use of Chantix to millions of prescriptions, although the enthusiasm of the drug users because of a suicide and eccentric behavior and have subsided. In 2008 the initial U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the safety of Chantix has issued a safety warning of the report.

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