15
The UK’s NHS to roll out free antismoking pill. Will it work?
(www.aljazeera.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2024
15 points (94.1% liked)
World News
383 readers
432 users here now
Rules:
- Be a decent person
- No spam
- Add the byline, or write a line or two in the body about the article.
founded 2 months ago
MODERATORS
Wildly untrue.
I meant that you won’t be getting anything out of that nicotine while taking pills.
Still not true tho...
Receptors aren't binary, there's like millions of those fuckers, no one is taking enough of this to keep all their nicotine receptors bound 24/7.
Even if we could do that, it's a terrible plan for a whole bunch of reasons.
And not everything binds the same way for the same amount of time, and obviously don't have the same effect. If there's nicotine and this medication floating around, it's not an orderly line, it's random what binds. So smoking can still give an effect.
Like, this reminds of the time someone asked me:
There's just so much wrong with what you're saying and it feels like you have no background knowledge about how any of this actually works to build on to explain it.
If you want to understand this, you'd be best off just reading the Wikipedia for this medication, specifically the method of action.
Obviously it’s not possible to block everything but subjectively speaking it blocked quite a good deal. While taking cytisine tablets all that nicotine does is make you nauseous and even if it does anything it’s not enough to offset massive adverse effects of smoking that you’re suddenly feeling. This effectively stops you from being able to enjoy nicotine at all.