Posts Tagged ‘Brain’

17
Oct

Healthy Memphis: Brain, lifestyle changes needed to quit smoking

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Habitual smokers are addicts.

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8
Aug

Smoking Withdrawal Appears In Mood Centers Of Brain

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Smoking withdrawal causes mood centers of the brain to be altered, which could help explain why some smokers become depressed after they quit smoking, new research reports.

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1
Aug

Diabetes, Smoking, Big Gut Shrink Your Brain

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Diabetes, smoking and high blood pressure during midlife years may cause your brain to shrink. Want another reason to quit smoking or lose that gut? How about cognitive decline? “People who were obese at middle age were more likely to … Read More

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1
Aug

Diabetes, Smoking, Big Gut Shrink Your Brain

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Diabetes, smoking and high blood pressure during midlife years may cause your brain to shrink. Want another reason to quit smoking or lose that gut? How about cognitive decline? “People who were obese at middle age were more likely to … Read More

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9
Jan

Prescription Drugs May Make Kicking the Habit Easier, MT Tobacco Quit Line Can Help

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For those who resolved to quit smoking in the New Year, prescription medication may be the help your brain needs to fight powerful nicotine cravings.

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3
Jan

Key to quit smoking success

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Prescription medication may be the help the brain needs to fight powerful nicotine cravings.

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29
Dec

A 2011 Resolution: Quit smoking? Nah. Quit shuffling? Go for it.

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They are the ideal inventions for our ADDled 21st century: the iPod and its requisite filling station iTunes. We want what we want when we want it — nownownow — a quick hit to the brain. We are Shuffle Nation. I love my iPod, too. But I love music more, and I appreciate an artist’s desire to move us, make us think,, not just in one chart-topping song, but in a complete, complex body of work. So ...

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25
Oct

Smoking in middle age doubles risk of Alzheimer’s, report finds

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In one of the first studies to examine smoking's effect on the brain, those who smoked more than two packs a day in middle age were 114% more likely than non-smokers to develop dementia later in life. Heavy smoking at middle age more than doubles the risk of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia later in life, according to one of the first long-term studies to examine the issue.

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25
Oct

Smoking in middle age doubles risk of Alzheimer’s, report finds

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In one of the first studies to examine smoking's effect on the brain, those who smoked more than two packs a day in middle age were 114% more likely than non-smokers to develop dementia later in life. Heavy smoking at middle age more than doubles the risk of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia later in life, according to one of the first long-term studies to examine the issue.

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Develop a customized quit plan with help from our stop smoking tools. Get the facts about Nicotine and how it affects your brain.

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