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Happy Holidays
This is often a time to overindulge with good food and drink (at least it is for me), quickly followed by a period of thinking about what we’d like to change for the better in the year ahead. Here in the States I think there is a strong sense that...
Dec 25, 2008
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The Allen Carr “Easy Way” to quit smoking -1
A colleague in Mexico recently asked me to explain the popularity of the Allen Carr method of quitting smoking, and I thought this might be of wider interest. It just so happens that Allen Carr’s original clinic in Raynes Park in London was about ...
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Philip Morris Ask for Tobacco Risk Comparison
The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 6 that Philip Morris and U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co., both parts of the Altria Group Inc., wrote to the FDA suggesting that tobacco products be ranked on their harmfulness to health. This would most likely resu...
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Is cannabis smoking more harmful than cigarette smoking?
A study published in the journal, Thorax, recently hit the headlines as demonstrating that smoking a cannabis joint was at least twice as harmful to lung function as smoking a cigarette. So what are the dangers of smoking cannabis and how do these...
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The Enchantments of Smoking
Carrie again...I think Dr. Kleinman dozed off a bit. But we will persevere. Only this time, we're gonna take a trip down a different path--down deep into the psyche, or whatever it is that makes us tick. I started smoking back in college, about 15...
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How many cigarettes does it take to become addicted?
Only 35 years ago, pioneering health scientists identified smoking as an addiction, and it was only as recently as 20 years ago was there scientific consensus in the public health community that tobacco smoking is typically an addiction to nicotin...
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Nicotrol Nasal Spray: an effective treatment for the heavy smoker.
Of all the nicotine replacement products, the one that’s used least frequently is the nicotine nasal spray (brand name Nicotrol). This may be partly because it requires a prescription, and partly because it initially causes some nasal side-effects...
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Get ready for a smoke-free 2009
So here we are approaching the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009. Wouldn’t it be great to reach this time next year having gone the whole year without smoking? So now is the time to really get yourself ready to quit. One of the first things to...
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Can quitting smoking after lung cancer diagnosis improve survival?
Most smokers dread lung cancer. They are aware that by continuing to smoke the chances of developing lung cancer are increased 20 times, and that once it has developed the treatment is unpleasant and prognosis poor. Many patients (and unfortunatel...
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How harmful is snuff smokeless tobacco?
The major multinational cigarette manufacturers have begun to produce and market smokeless tobacco products (partly by buying smokeless tobacco companies). As the price of cigarettes increases and smoke-free air laws make it impossible to smoke in...
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