In Health Watch:There may be new help on the way for smokers who want to kick the habit...The University of Minnesota is looking for volunteers to test an anti-nicotine vaccine.Dr. Dorothy Hatsukami of the University of Minnesota's Masonic Cancer Center says the vaccine basically makes nicotine less pleasurable.She says, unlike the patch and gum which give smokers a small dose of nicotine... the vaccine actually stops the nicotine from making it to your brain.Hatsukami says: "the way the nicotine vaccine works is... You can have a cigarette and it's just no longer reinforcing. It's not... You don't get the pleasure you get from smoking normally. So what happens is people want to give up the cigarette."Dr. Hatsukami is looking for 50 people who smoke ten cigarettes or more a day to take part in a trial.If you're interested, call 612-626-5155.It will take about three years before the vaccine can be approved by the Food and Drug Administration.










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