Articles in the ‘Drugs & Medicine’ Category

The unpalatable truth is that there are millions of smoking related deaths every year.  So it is not surprising that many addicted smokers are desperate to quit faced with this potential calamity. Many then consider having a quit smoking injection,  but also wonder if it will work, given that it is quite expensive and a [...]

Let’s be clear right from the start.  No, there no such thing as a nicotine vaccine.   Smoking cigarettes is a nicotine addiction, not an infection or disease. What is a vaccine? The bottom line is that a vaccine is simply a small dose of a biological entity, designed to increase your immunity to a disease [...]

Chantix (chemical name ‘Varenicline’, also known as ‘Champix’) is a drug sold in pill form.  It is intended to reduce the craving for cigarettes in order to assist smokers to quit smoking. It works by targeting and ‘occupying’ your brain’s nicotine receptors. This stops nicotine reaching the receptors so the nicotine has no effect, other [...]

The fact is that millions of smokers – the majority – die from the poisonous effects of cigarettes each year.  But in spite of you knowing this, and being desperate to quit you can’t.   It’s not your fault, because the addiction can be too powerful. But the good news is that there is an easy [...]

You may have heard about a new injection you can have to quit smoking. Does this quit nicotine shot work?  There has been much debate as to whether it works or not, or whether the claimed successes can simply be put down to the placebo effect,  (people ‘think’ it is working) or can be put [...]