Research in Smoking Addiction
By jands1
@jands1 (835)
United States
August 5, 2008 4:57pm CST
Canadian researchers have some interesting results with why some people so despise cigarettes they didn't continue smoking while others enjoyed and were hooked from the first cigarette.
Apparently the Mesolimbic Dopamine Dystem is to blame. The same researches are mucking about with test subjects' mesolimbic dopamine receptor subtypes to enable test subjects to either see smoking as a positive thing or as a negative thing.
I love smoking. It is one one true vice I have left. I am aware of the physical ramifications to my body and am willing to accept that at this time. No. I don't plan on smoking all my life. But for now, I enjoy smoking.
So, with all the research going on, including this, how long do you think before a pill comes out that you take and it "cures" a person of smoking addiction? Would you take the pill to be "cured"?
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@michelled (326)
• United States
5 Aug 08
you know i would consider takeing it . It is my one hang up i have
in life , but i like you do enjoy smokeing . I trully do not
know why i enjoy it , but i do. But i like you dont want to
smoke for ever so i would consider takeing the pill.
@jands1 (835)
• United States
5 Aug 08
We all have different reasons for why we started smoking or even why we continue. I know mine is directly related to my primary sense and memories. Happiness and my grandparents smoking.
Seems like soon a pill will "cure" everything. Getting to be like The Twilight Zone. LOL
@michelled (326)
• United States
5 Aug 08
Yeah i know what you mean , and my father, both my brothers ,my aunt
my uncle, all smoked , so i was around it all my life . I know i learned
it to be normal , by what i saw daily.
