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New research suggests psilocybin for depression may reshape brain networks after one guided dose. Native healers have understood this process
A careful study shows that smokers benefit from quitting. It may be more than a decade, though, before their risk of heart attacks drops to normal.
Mindfulness and curiosity can help interrupt a habit loop, conquer your cravings and overcome addiction.
Drug and alcohol interactions could turn you into a mean and nasty person. Some drugs can also boost blood alcohol levels. Could that lead to a DWI arrest?
Everyone agrees that if you smoke, you should quit. There is controversy about the best way to accomplish that difficult task, however.
There are no easy ways to get off nicotine. Quitting smoking with Chantix is one option, but there are some worrisome side effects to watch out for.
The FDA has okayed removal of a black box warning about serious neuropsychiatric side effects associated with the stop-smoking drug Chantix.
Even people smoking only a few cigarettes a day are putting themselves at risk of dying prematurely.
If you use nicotine gum to help you stop smoking, will you find it difficult to discontinue the gum? A reader offers advice.
Chewing nicotine gum can help a person quit smoking, but what can help him give up the nicotine gum? Was one addiction replaced with a safer one?
One reader found that the Chantix she took to stop smoking seemed to make her wet the bed. Could that be a side effect of the drug?
British researchers report that those who quit smoking all at once are less likely to have returned to smoking six months later.
The stop-smoking drug Chantix does not mix well with alcohol; people using both may be prone to violent behavior.
Chantix can help people stop smoking, but it has a higher rate of suicidal and homicidal thoughts as a side effect than any other drug.
