Smoking is a physical addiction as well as a psychological habit, where nicotine from cigarette provides a temporary and addictive ‘high’. We as doctors are always advising our habitual smoking patients to QUIT. However, we do not have proper therapies that we can advise them about. Recently, I came across this article which talks about a bacteria that could ‘eat’ nicotine before it reaches the brain, and hence prove as a very useful anti-smoking therapy.
Below is an excerpt from the article that talks about this Pacman like bacteria. (Let me know what you think.) An enzyme which 'eats nicotine like Pac-Man' could pave the way for a promising, new anti-smoking therapy, scientists claim. A study found the molecule was able to significantly reduce the time nicotine remains in the bloodstream. Researchers discovered it can seek out and 'eat' the nicotine, before it gets to the brain where…
