Dorothy Hatsukami
Dorothy Hatsukami
absolutely promise worth
It's absolutely worth it. There's a lot of promise for this vaccine, not just because of our study, but also because of other studies.
addiction bind effects entering prevent process producing smoking thereby vaccine works
The vaccine works by producing antibodies that specifically bind to nicotine, and thereby prevent much of the nicotine from entering the brain. This process potentially reduces the pleasurable effects from smoking and reduces the addiction to nicotine.
addiction novel targeting treating
It's such a novel way of treating an addiction because it's not targeting any part of the brain. It's targeting the molecule itself.
asked coming counseling good people provide unless
That's pretty good for people coming in for non-treatment. We didn't even provide counseling unless they asked for it.
impressive result unexpected
This result was an impressive and completely unexpected study.