Showing posts with label how to stop smoking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to stop smoking. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Smoking and Sadness

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The chemistry of sorrow during nicotine withdrawal. When you smoke a cigarette, nicotine pops into acetylcholine receptors in the br...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Big Tobacco Hasn't Given Up On Smoking. Have You?

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World No Smoking Day.
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Cigarettes: Should the FDA Mandate a National Taper?

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Addiction expert calls for reduced-nicotine tobacco. For years now, nicotine researcher Neal Benowitz has been a man on a mission. Dr. Ben...
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Monday, June 4, 2012

High-Risk Haplotypes in Smokers

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It’s getting harder to interpret genetics studies, and that’s a good thing. Reporting the results of published studies concerned with ge...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

Researchers Eye a Cheap, Organic Alternative to Chantix for Smokers

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Meet cytisine, available in Bulgaria for 25 cents a pill. A clear majority of American smokers say they want to quit. But each year, only...
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Cigarette Sadness

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The chemistry of sorrow during nicotine withdrawal. When you smoke a cigarette, nicotine pops into acetylcholine receptors in the brain, ...
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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Teachable Moments in the Life of a Cigarette Smoker

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Child surgery makes smoking parents more likely to try quitting. Here’s a strange one: Doctors at Mayo Clinic wanted to find out whether ...
Friday, June 3, 2011

For Smokers, Nowhere to Run and Nowhere to Hide

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(With love and apologies to Martha and the Vandellas.) That wonderful song goes on to declare: 'Cause I know You're no good fo...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Smoking and Adolescent Attention Deficit

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Are young smokers risking cognitive impairment as adults?  Call it “nicolescence.” It’s that time of life when certain 18-and-unders disc...
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Sunday, February 20, 2011

From NINA to NSNA: No Smokers Need Apply

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 Smoke-free workplace or job discrimination? It started with hospitals and medical businesses. As more and more states adopted strict pol...
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Sunday, February 13, 2011

What’s the Best Valentine’s Day Present of All?

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Answer: a healthy heart. Valentine’s Day is all about hearts, so it’s not surprising that February was picked as American Heart Month alm...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Visual Cues and Addiction

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Do smoking scenes in movies make smokers want to light up? Smokers and former smokers will understand what I mean when I say that an addic...
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Thursday, November 18, 2010

The Day After

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How’s that no-smoking pledge going? This post is not meant for most of you. Those of you who never smoked, or smoked and quit successfully...
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Saturday, September 18, 2010

Put Down Your Cigarette Rag (Don't Smoke)

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By Allen Ginsberg (1971) Dont smoke dont smoke dont smoke Dont smoke It's a nine billion dollar Capitalist Communist joke Dont smoke do...
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Friday, August 27, 2010

Smoking and Baby Poop

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Telltale metabolites in meconium. Attention pregnant smokers: You can run, but you can’t hide. A chemical analysis of your baby’s first o...
Friday, April 23, 2010

A Shot for Cigarette Addiction?

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NIDA’s Nora Volkow on addiction vaccines. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) , predicted in a telephone...
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