New York: Paving the way for tailor-made treatments to stop smoking, researchers have shown that finding out how quickly smokers break down nicotine in their bodies is the key to helping them quit, says IANS.
“Our findings show that matching a treatment based on the rate at which smokers metabolise (break down) nicotine could be a viable clinical strategy to help individual smokers choose the cessation method that will work best for them,” said co-lead author Caryn Lerman, professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania in the US.
A simple blood test could point out how fast smokers break down nicotine, the researchers said. However, different people metabolise nicotine at different rates.
