Duke University Study on how Nicotine Builds up slowly in the brain.

[yanorox]

Here is a link to a new study about how nicotine builds up slowly in the brain. I found this quote very interesting "His laboratory, for example, is working on a mist inhaler to deliver nicotine without any combustion." Sounds like an ecig to me.

Nicotine builds up slowly in the brain - Addictions- msnbc.com

[yvilla]

"His laboratory, for example, is working on a mist inhaler to deliver nicotine without any combustion." Sounds like an ecig to me.

Not quite, Yanorox. The Duke device is being positioned as a straight up medical device, sort of as an improvement on the existing (and not very well liked or effective, I believe) nicotine inhaler. It looks much like a medicinal inhaler, eg, like asthma inhalers.

New smoking cessation therapy proves promising

(WO/2008/121610) DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF A MEDICAMENT (see diagram on patent application).

[rothenbj]

Not quite, Yanorox. The Duke device is being positioned as a straight up medical device, sort of as an improvement on the existing (and not very well liked or effective, I believe) nicotine inhaler. It looks much like a medicinal inhaler, eg, like asthma inhalers.

New smoking cessation therapy proves promising

(WO/2008/121610) DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF A MEDICAMENT (see diagram on patent application).

If my memory is correct, I believe that part of the New Zealand study done for Ruyan was completed at Duke. I wonder if this work is being done by the same people.

[yvilla]

If my memory is correct, I believe that part of the New Zealand study done for Ruyan was completed at Duke. I wonder if this work is being done by the same people.

I think so, Rothenbj. I do know that Dr. Laugesen, author of the New Zealand study, IS involved in the work on this new device. From the press release cited above:

"Collaborators on the project included Turner, Murugesan, and Frederique M. Behm of Duke University Medical Center, Chris J. Wynne, of the Christchurch Clinical Studies Trust, Christchurch, New Zealand, and Murray Laugesen, of Health New Zealand Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand."