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They specifically wanted to examine whether damage to a part of the brain called the insula was associated with spontaneous quitting smoking immediately after the brain injury. The insular cortex, or insula, is a relatively small and thin structur...
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When we think of the challenges of beating nicotine addiction we usually think of strong cravings and struggling with severe irritability and restlessness.
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The idea was to vividly tell their tragic stories and to inspire others to quit tobacco and so avoid the same. In 2000 Joel Spitzer, an experienced smoking cessation counselor and author joined whyquit and the site took on more of a role of advisi...
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Of course there is a certain artificiality about this because most people consider that nicotine addiction exists on a continuum of severity, rather than being a categorical disorder that a person either does or does not have.
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Last night I went to see the Michael Moore movie SiCKO which is an expose of the problems with the U.S. healthcare system, focusing particularly on the problems with health insurance and so-called Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs). No matter...
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Chantix binds to nicotine receptors and blocks them so that nicotine can no longer activate those receptors (an effect that pharmacologists sometimes call an antagonist effect). This means that when someone is trying to quit and they lapse and smo...
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The Royal College of Physicians of London (established in 1518) has a long history of producing influential, cutting edge reports on topics of critical importance to public health. For example, the RCPs 1962 report Smoking and Health was the first...
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