One can now know whether one can kick the habit of smoking. Researchers have focused upon the genetic patterns that influence the ability of a smoker to give up smoking. These genetic patterns can tell how a smoker will successfully respond to cessation treatments. This helps a smoker to decide upon a program of cessation, which would bring in results.
Scientist belonging to Duke University Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania, National Institute of Drug Abuse and Brown University identified genes that could predict the success or failure response to nicotine replacement therapy(NRT) and bupropion (Zyban). This helps in chalking out a cessation therapy program that would prove successful to the smoker. They would go in for therapies that would benefit them. A simple blood test would provide all the necessary information with regard to the type of cessation treatment that one can go in for. Of course,much is yet to be known about what role each gene plays in influencing the outcome of the treatment.
These findings appeared in the June 2008 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. The National Institute of Health, Phillip Morris USA Inc. and Glaxo SmithKline supported the study.
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