antinicotine

English

Etymology

anti- + nicotine

Adjective

antinicotine (not comparable)

  1. Opposing or countering nicotine.
    • 1991, James Cocores, The clinical management of nicotine dependence:
      Fortunately, an antinicotine posture on the part of peers and family members, which acts as a powerful form of antinicotine advertising, can also influence and prevent nicotine use and can guide nicotine addicts into recovery.
    • 2009 October 6, Roni Caryn Rabin, “Cocaine Vaccine Is Developed, but It Does Not Keep Users From Wanting the Drug”, in New York Times:
      The trial’s success is significant because some of the same principles are being used by other scientists in trying to create an antinicotine vaccine, which could have even broader appeal.

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