For all you smokers out there. Scientist (or Doctors) has discovered a damage spot in the brain that could somehow help prevent the craving for smoking. That this insula discovery, if it's damaged inside the brain, the urge to quit smoking prompts those smokers whose insula has been damaged to not feel anything like smoking. They lose the feeling of wanting to smoke. Confused?
According to this report
Damage to a silver dollar-sized spot deep in the brain seems to wipe out the urge to smoke, a surprising discovery that may shed important new light on addiction.
Clearly brain damage isn't a treatment option for people struggling to kick the habit.
But the finding, reported in Friday's edition of the journal Science, does point scientists toward new ways to develop anti-smoking aids by targeting this little-known brain region called the insula.
Smokers, if you really want to quit that nicotine habit, don't even wait to have part of your brain to be damaged or get sick.
Thirteen of the insula-damaged patients had quit smoking, 12 of them super-easily: They quit within a day of the brain injury, and reported neither smoking nor even feeling the urge since then.
Well, if there's a brain injury, wouldn't it be natural for that person whose got the injury to not smoke? I mean, are there really people (smokers at that) who still smokes even with brain injury? Or is that silly ignoramus question? Aye. Man, I brain my damage and I don't even smoke! Sheesh.
It is definitely good discovery to expound and worked on for making new ways to stop the dilemma of smoking and the smokers who can't seem to kick that puffing huffing nicotine drive into their lungs. Smoking is foul smelling killer addiction.
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