Stop Smoking Pills

Some people believe that there is a pill for everything, and there may be one condition that those people will be able to add to their list soon: stop smoking pills. Several pharmaceutical companies are working on stop smoking pills, which would help people medically deal with their nicotine addiction. Nicotine is considered the largest addiction in the United States, and it kills close to half a million people every year. Stop smoking pills have long been an urban myth in both smoking and pharmaceutical communities, but several companies have decided to pursue this area to see if stop smoking pills are possible. Luckily for smokers, these researchers are finding out that they are.

Stop smoking pills would help people by making smoking a treatable addiction. The pills, or vaccines, being created would help people quit their smoking habit much more easily than most people can do right now. One of the reasons many smokers report being unable to quit is that they feel good after having a cigarette. It can make a stressful event tolerable for the seasoned smoker. The stop smoking pills would work with the brain’s chemistry to make smoking unpleasant. Medical researchers have located a certain receptor in the brain. They believe that nicotine attaches itself to this receptor, which gives the smoker pleasurable feelings. The stop smoking pills would block this receptor from accepting the nicotine, making smoking create no good feelings for the smoker.

These pills would not make it mandatory that the smoker quit. Like some ways of treating illicit drug addictions, there would be no ill effects from smoking on the drug. The pills, which also have some promise to help stop overeating, would simply make smoking no fun. The calm that smokers report feeling would cease to exist, making lighting up unable to calm down the stressed smoker. Instead the smoking would be for habit only, as the body would not be able to process it.