(PRINTWORDS NEWS) Though doctors and health experts advice people to quit smoking, recent study reveals that regular smoking promotes weight loss for smokers in future. On one hand, the doctors are warning patients about the negative effects of smoking, on the other hand, researchers are of the opinion that smoking results in weight loss. This is surely going to be a good news for the smokers as Yale University researchers announced that nicotine controls obesity in human.
In recent press conference, the researchers have announced that they found certain neurons in human body that is responsible for lack of appetite in the smokers.cig1 Nicotine And Weight Loss Has A Connection, Says Researchers
Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and Yale University School of Medicine’s researchers jointly experimented on mice and found out that some neurons are activated through nicotine and these neurons sends signals to the body of human and it can control obesity. At the same time, the researchers said that these neurons are not the same that triggers craving for nicotine in human.
The experts also added that they performed pharmacological, molecular, genetic and behavioral experiments on mice and came to the conclusion that nicotine influences certain circuits of nervous system, which are known as hypothalamic melanocortin system. Pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons are activated because of these receptors and as a result, effects the obesity of animals and humans.
Yann Maneur, an associate researcher said, “We found that nicotine, when it enters the brain, activates specific nicotine receptors that are located on specific neurons known to decrease feeding and increase energy expenditure when activated”.
While speaking about this research, Marina Picciotto, the psychiatry professor of Yale University and senior researcher of this study said, “Imagine a nicotine-based medicine which could only target those cells which stop eating and not trigger the need for tobacco”. On the other hand, there are some side effects as well.
Marina Picciotto said that when the smokers give up smoking, they might gain up to 2.5 kilos of weight. However, the Professor criticized people who smokes by saying that some group of people smokes to control their weight and it is really sad on their part
