A vaccine to help ex-smokers

From New Orleans, at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience

By generating antibodies that neutralize nicotine, a vaccine could keep ex-smokers from getting the nicotine high that drives many of them back to their bad habit, according to a group of neuroscientists.

“Our focus is to prevent a relapse,” says Sabina de Villiers of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.