Quit Smoking! You are choking the rest of us
Grandma Walton said something like, “If God intended people to smoke, He would have put chimney tops on our heads.” I don’t remember much about The Waltons, but I do remember that phrase, because...
View ArticleCut Off: How much booze is too much?
During the holidays, people were chug-a-lugging along, drinking eggnog with rum, eating fruit cake with more rum, sipping wine, and downing martinis. Most people know their limits. Amateurs, however,...
View ArticleChantix: Quit Smoking!
My life is so not glamorous. Because I have such a small practice, I usually can’t afford to have outside help. But now we’re hiring a nurse practitioner, and we’ve been hauling things all over,...
View ArticleEndocannabinoids: Can you lose weight with “anti-marijuana” medicine?
Endocannabinoids: losing weight? Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump need to hash it out more so they can continue to irritate America! C’mon, Donald! You’re a rich successful man and, yes, your last name...
View ArticleAlcoholic Cerebellar Degeneration : Worse than putting a lamp shade on your head
Dionne Warwick ruled the airwaves before her show, Solid Gold, became tainted with green and her Psychic Hotline went bankrupt-couldn’t predict that! “If you see me walking down the street, And I start...
View ArticleHow Much Alcohol is Too Much Alcohol : Stop in the name of love!
Bad habits are hard to break. Cracking chewing gum drives me crazy like someone scratching a chalkboard (the birth of dry markers in classrooms?). Throwing cigarette butts from the car instead of...
View ArticleAddiction
Addiction to drugs leads to a path of wanting more: more drugs, more often. It is a chronic disease of impaired control of using drugs/alcohol despite the harm they cause. The repeated use of the...
View ArticleQuit Smoking | Cold Turkey
“Smokin’ in the Boys Room” is a pretty popular song. “Everybody knows that smokin’ ain’t allowed in school.” (Didn’t the songwriter know “ain’t” ain’t a word?) One of my classmates got caught smoking...
View ArticleEndocannabinoids | Can you lose weight with “anti-marijuana” medicine?
Endocannabinoids: losing weight? Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump need to hash it out more so they can continue to irritate America! C’mon, Donald! You’re a rich successful man and, yes, your last...
View ArticleAnterograde Amenesia |“Memories, like the corner of my…what?”
“Forget it– it never happened!” How many times have we heard that from dysfunctional or unethical people? (Or at least in TV, movies, and books?) If you’re like an elephant, you never forget anything....
View ArticleChantix | Cure to Quit Smoking?
My life is so not glamorous. Because I have such a small practice (circa 2006), I usually can’t afford to have outside help. But now we’re hiring a nurse practitioner, and we’ve been hauling things...
View ArticleCaffeine – Can it kill you?
Click to view video This article was written in 2006, but still — it’s a classic! LOL. So Mike and I on HLN discuss recent cardiac deaths that are linked to high caffeine drinks. Caffeine makes the...
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