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Dr. Howell enjoys helping others enhance their health by quitting smoking. He has been helping people quit smoking since medical school. He sincerely believes that quitting smoking is the number one thing anyone can do to become healthier. Explore his articles to help people quit smoking, debunk smoking myths and more!
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1y ago
Researched and developed in the 1990s as a diabetic therapy Liraglutide and Semaglutide also helps patients lose unwanted weight.
These molecules mimic the role of incretin. Incretin is released in the gastrointestinal tract.
Incretin is a naturally occurring hormone released in the body after eating that helps regulate blood glucose levels in the body.
Incretin also plays a role on making you feel full after eating, what scientist call satiety.
The feeling satiety is the opposite of feeling hungry. Increasing the feeling satiety is the target of most weight loss strategies.
Satiety in a pill ..read more
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1y ago
“…what does it mean? what is it exactly? Is it real? … like if someone has ADHD is not like you have herpes, like you can say I have a disease. What is it?.” – Joe Rogan
On episode #1869 with Gabor Mate Joe Rogan asks if ADH is real. ADHD is real. Just because you cannot see something and point your finger to it does not mean it does not exist.
Joe Rogan is biased in his thinking about athletic development versus intellectual development. He seems appalled at the idea that you could sit for instruction and further your mind. This is somehow “unnatural” to him. But he does not balk ..read more
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1y ago
“…two shall withstand him.” – Ecclesiastes 4:12
According to Wikipedia approximately fifty people have swum across the 21-mile abyss separating southern England from northern France. A few of these human-dolphin show-offs have done it more than once.
I have a friend that I will call Dr. Regina (not her real name). We decided to help one another lose weight. We make each other accountable by sharing our daily weight and encouraging each other to shed the pounds.
Day by day we are all aging. But living over-weight is like trying to swim across the English Channel with an albatross tied ar ..read more
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1y ago
Custom Essays at Canada
Custom essays might be great solution to find out more about the country you are thinking about studying. Canada is one of the best places to go when studying for a degree, and writing custom essays is an excellent way to know more about the nation itself.
The prevalence of Canada is soaring on the last decade or so, and also one of the biggest reasons for this is that the growth in the prevalence of habit essays. Custom essays have grown to be a method for students to find out more about their chosen education institution. The necessity to have custom essays, rather th ..read more
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1y ago
Despite being known as extremely toxic and additive and costing over eight million lives per year, many people continue to smoke. It is estimated that there are 1.3 billion smokers in the world and 80 percent of them live in low- and middle-income countries.
A defining characteristic of the tobacco industry has been its ability to adapt to the changing world. For instance, when the link between cancer and smoking first gained public attention, manufacturers responded by putting filters on cigarettes.
While there is no scientific evidence showing that filters protect smokers from the harmful e ..read more
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1y ago
A temporary elevation of of liver function enzymes such as the aminotransferase levels (ALT and AST) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) have been reported in some patients using CHANTIX with underlying liver disease such as alcoholic liver disease and/or hepatitis virus infections. These elevations are usually noticed after one month of treatment with Chantix (varenicline) and once the drug is stopped the levels return to baseline levels within a few months. Therefore for patients with impaired hepatic function following liver functions with routine blood test is warranted.
So if you dri ..read more
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1y ago
Everyday you smoke you are taking your hard earned money and enriching the tobacco companies.
And they want you to continue smoking so that they can get richer everyday…If this doesn’t make you want to quit I don’t know what will.I just came from the census.gov site and saw the estimated World and US population. The US is just a small portion of the whole World population.
U.S. 310,861,002
World 6,886,171,015
(US pop is less than 5% of world pop.)
01:12 UTC (EST+5) Dec 07, 2010
From a very young age I always enjoyed looking at numbers. I would look at a numbers like these and see th ..read more
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1y ago
Chantix was tested in rats and rabbits at oral doses of up to 50-times the maximum recommended dose for humans and found not to cause birth defects in rats or rabbits. Although Chantix did, cause reduced fetal weight in the offspring of pregnant rabbits.
There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. Therefore, the potential effects of Chantix on labor and delivery are not known.
Current Categories for Drug Use in Pregnancy
Category A : Adequate, well-controlled studies in pregnant women have not shown an increased risk of fetal abnormalities.
Category B : Anima ..read more
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1y ago
Chantix and the patch used in combination
I cannot seem to quit with just one non-smoking aid at a time. I was successful once before when I took a high daily dosage of Wellbutrin and wore the patch at the same time. Can I wear the patch and take Chantix at the same time? -DW
Dear DW,
Chantix works by reducing the smoker’s craving for nicotine by binding to receptors in the brain and reducing the symptoms of withdrawal. Chantix (varenicline) also reduces the satisfaction a smoker receives when smoking a cigarette.
Clinical trials to date have shown that Chantix is more effective th ..read more
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1y ago
Getting Help On Essay Topics
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With the range of opportunities to improve your grades and to assist you to on essay issues, it’s not ever too late to look for help. Getting help could be both a fantastic opportunity and a terrific challenge for a lot of students who wish to compose their best essays. Students in this case have to locate the ideal sources of help which may help them to achieve success in t ..read more