Nabi Biopharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKline team up to produce nicotine vaccine and help smokers kick the habit… Anyone who’s ever been a smoker knows just how hard it is to quit. But thanks to a new vaccine that blocks the nicotine in tobacco from entering the brain, quitting could get soon get a lot easier.

Cigarette smoke contains 4000 harmful chemicals. 60 of them are carcinogens. Nicotine is the addictive element in the cigarette smoke. The National Institute of Drug Abuse is developing the nicotine vaccine to counteract the additive effect of nicotine. This article tries to gain further insight in to the findings.

Smoking cessation is when a person tries to quit smoking. It is estimated that most people who quit smoking usually do it on willpower alone. This may not always be the case, though; many people have successfully quit smoking using items such as the patch or gum. Smoking cessation has become a part of everyday life for many. Even though there are still...