Medical Health

Jude Lewis submitted this entry:

Stopping smoking is now considerably more complicated than it was when I was a little kid. While everyone agrees addiction to nicotine is the primary reason cigarettes are so hard to quit, not everyone agrees that the prescription of antidepressants is a safe solution. Norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors and dopamine reuptake inhibitors are history; now there is a medication available which specifically targets nicotine receptors in the brain. The argument is that a drug which acts as a nicotinic agonist specifically, instead of as familiar antidepressant generally, will be safer for the general population and have fewer side effects. This does seem scientifically sound, but introduces yet another layer of pharmaceutical complexity in combatting smoking.

Very best regards,

Jude Lewis
General Consultant
Consultants General
http://www.consultantsgeneral.com

Just a short note to say that my earlier post where I explained that consumers should refrigerate Emu Oil was “published” in the 84th Carnival of Healing.

You may submit your best blog entries to a variety of sites and subject areas listed on blogcarnival.com.

A quote from John Updike’s book Seek My Face, page 48:

Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth. The only virtue left in this day and age is courage before the hopeless.

He means your courage best serves the hopeless.