A diabetes medication can help you quit smoking
We all know that smoking is not good for us. It can make us very ill and even cause us to die sooner than we should.
In Denmark, almost 16,000 people die every year because they cannot quit smoking.
This is because cigarettes contain a substance called nicotine that is highly addictive. This means that it is difficult to quit smoking once you have started. But what if there was a way to make quitting easier?
A happy coincidence
Scientists from the University of Copenhagen conducted a study on a drug called liraglutide, which is commonly used to treat diabetes and severely obese people.
They used mice for their study and made an interesting discovery. The drug seemed to affect how nicotine works in the brain!
Nicotine and the Brain
Nicotine rewards your brain by releasing a chemical called dopamine. Because of this, people love to smoke and find it difficult to quit.
But the scientists found that liraglutide could reduce this effect. That means it could help people quit smoking.
More research needed
The scientists initially did not study nicotine. They investigated whether liraglutide and nicotine could help people lose weight.
Because of this, they need to do more research to find out if the drug can actually help you quit smoking.
Exciting possibilities
This is exciting as there are currently no treatment options that can stop nicotine cravings. The scientists hope their discovery will encourage other researchers and pharmaceutical companies to look further into it.
They are also studying two substances, GLP-1 and nicotine, that may affect our appetite and help with weight loss.
work together
The researchers worked with a team from the University of Copenhagen studying the brain.
They found that the combination of GLP-1 and nicotine can not only help reduce food intake, but also cause the body to release less dopamine. This could reduce nicotine cravings and help people quit smoking.
While more research is needed to know for sure, this discovery is a hopeful step toward finding new ways to help people quit smoking.
If you are interested in diabetes, please read studies on the leading cause of death from type 2 diabetes. If you have diabetes, coffee and green tea can help you live longer.
For more information on diabetes, see the current studies A keto diet could help control body weight and blood sugar in type 2 diabetesand results to show that Blueberries are of great benefit to people with metabolic syndrome.
The study was published in cell reports.
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