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Sep 17 2007

What you need to know to quit smoking

Published by DaughterSK under Beauty, Fitness, Health

Ever tried to quit smoking? It is tough like hell and for those of you who are even remotely thinking of taking up smoking, don’t!

For those of you who are already in the deep end totally addicted to nicotine, it is not too late to try to quit smoking. You can always try cold turkey but this is the hardest way to quit. You can try to wear nicotine patches. One other way to do it is to take prescription medicines.

Two popular prescription medicines which can help you to quit smoking are Chantix and Zyban. Although they will both help you to quit smoking the two medicines differ from each other in many ways. Chantix is designed to reduce nicotine craving and withdrawal effects. It basically works by blocking the receptors in the brain that controls this addiction. Zyban is essentially an antidepressant and the FDA approved it as a smoking cessation medicine in 1997. The mechanism which enables the patients to abstain from smoking is still to-date unknown.

Chantix is manufactured by Pfizer whilst Zyban is produced by GlaxoSmithKline. Chantix is not recommended in combination with any other smoking cessation medicines. However a combination treatment of Zyban and NTS may be prescribed for patients who are trying to quit smoking.

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Sep 17 2007

Pancreatic Cancer Walk

Published by Liver Cancer under Cancer, Cancer treatment, Fitness, Health, MISC, Pancreatic Cancer

How you can help to raise funds for pancreatic cancer!

Pancreatic cancer is the 4th leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States . It is a silent killer and this type of cancer spreads easily. Signs and symptoms may not appear until the disease is at the advanced stages. By that time, the cancer would have spread to other parts of the body. Funds are needed for research into the cause and cure of this disease.

Walk for Pancreatic Cancer research at Albany Capital District on Sunday, September 23rd 2007.

This will be their 4th annual walk and it will be held on Sunday, 9/23 at the Bethlehem Town Park in Delmar , NY .

Registration starts at 0900hrs and the walk will start at 0930hrs. Please join, as not everybody is as "lucky" as Steve Jobs…
More funds are needed as it is sad to hear that in the 21st century, one couldn’t even detect what fathers’ primary cancer was…

Weight loss pills that do work

Published by Liver Cancer under Beauty, Drugs, Fitness, Health

I have been trying to loose some pounds and have tried a couple of diet pills including one from China that was eventually banned! It was supposed to be “totally natural” but well, it seems it was not. I was fortunate that I only took it for a short while and after reading about a young mother who died taking the pills, I took the pills and flushed them down the toilet! That was a scare..

Then one day I was at the clinic because of some skin problem and the woman doctor said to me that I seemed to be carrying some weight around my tummy. "Why don’t you take this weight loss pill called alli ?" She said that it would help me loose weight around my tummy and I don’t even have to worry about cutting down fats in my diet.

I was thinking that this must be a miracle pill. She said it was FDA approved and can be easily bought over the counter.

I asked her about possible side effects but she said there was none except that people who are very obese may experience some “leakage”. Well, those of you who are thinking of trying this weight loss pill, I would suggest you read this article about side effects first.

Does Alli works? Yes it does, and I did lose a few pounds but I have stopped taking it as I was worried about possible long term effects.

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