NicVAX is a new vaccine to help you to stop smoking. It also aids in preventing relapses of a treated smoker.

When you smoke, you inhale. The smoke is carried to your lungs, your lungs carries the nicotine thru your blood stream to your brain. After so many cigarettes you are addicted to the nicotine. Your brain tells your body that your need more nicotine. The more you smoke the more nicotine your body needs.

NicVAX is designed to stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies that bind to nicotine in the bloodstream and prevent it from crossing the blood-brain barrier and entering the brain. Therefore, if it does not reach the brain, your body does not know that it needs more nicotine. Pre-clinical animal studies with NicVAX have shown that the vaccination could prevent nicotine addiction or can aid in the help of maintaining an addiction.

When using Nic VAX; the effect is irreversible for potentially six to 12 months following vaccination as antibodies to nicotine continue to be produced by the body’s immune system. This will help the relapse rate that has been observed when a smoker attempts to quit smoking. Currently, smokers being treated for nicotine addiction can stop using their therapy and their addiction is still there.

NicVAX has little or no side effects. Just minor aches and pains, less than 10% of the people who took part in the clinical trials had fever or vomiting.