Psilocybin Shows Promise as Smoking Cessation Aid, BBC Reports

For generations, the grip of nicotine has resisted the best tools medicine could offer, because those tools addressed the body while the deeper wound lived in the mind. Now, researchers are finding that psilocybin — a compound long confined to the margins of pharmacology — may reach where patches and prescriptions cannot, gently loosening the psychological architecture that keeps smokers bound to their habit. The work is preliminary, but it arrives at a moment when regulators are beginning to ask whether the boundaries drawn around psychedelics were drawn too hastily, and whether genuine heali