Doctors hope injection could cure smoking addiction
DOCTORS in the United States are testing a radical new way to help smokers quit - an injection that "immunises" them against the nicotine rush that fuels their addiction.
About 300 people around the country are testing an experimental vaccine that makes the immune system attack nicotine in much the same way it would fight a life-threatening germ.
The treatment keeps nicotine from reaching the brain, making smoking less pleasurable and theoretically, easier to give up.
If it works the vaccine could become part of a new generation of smoking cessation treatments.
