Research explores nicotine addiction
A University study to be published in the journal Psychopharmacology provides insight into why people may gain weight after they quit smoking.
The experiment, led by psychiatry researcher Darlene Brunzell, investigated the effort mice would expend for food by monitoring the number of times they poked their nose into a hole that would eventually trigger the release of food. Those with prior nicotine exposure worked harder for the food, Brunzell said.
"They would nose poke much longer and harder before quitting," she said.
The same study also uncovered a cause for...
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