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THE LATEST ABOUT ADDICTION
Posted by Yvonne
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2008-10-16 22:26:17
The word addiction is connected with the word obsession—since an addict individual is much attached to a particular thing that he must do or be with it as often as he can, just like obsession. As everyone says that anything that comes with a large amount is bad for our health. Yes, it is definitely true.
Basically, there are various types of addiction. Some of it is not that “bad”, like addiction in chocolates, but the following are the most common that alarms every person in the world:
Drug addiction
Alcoholism
Chain smoking
Sex addiction
Gambling addiction
The effects of these addictions had been the cause of broken family in the society, health failure, and financial problems for every individual who is involve with it.
Last 7th of October, according to the Reuters Health News, the nicotine gums have a positive effect on pregnant women. Here are the full details of it:
Since smoking during pregnancy causes premature and low birth weight baby, US researchers claimed that chewing nicotine or placebo gums may help the smoking habits of pregnant women. These guns will not stop them from smoking but it will help them a lot to reduce the habit. Hence, also it will reduce the tendency of giving birth to a premature baby.
In their study, about 194 pregnant women underwent this observation for about six weeks. They also had the privilege on counseling for smoking cessation. The results came out positively. Nicotine gum chewers reduced their number of cigarette sticks to only 5.7 per day, and placebo gum chewers were down to 3.5 cigarettes a day.
Furthermore, the pregnant women who chewed nicotine gums delivered their babies close to its term and significantly added more weight than who chewed placebo gums.
In spite of the results, Dr. Oncken of University of Connecticut School of Medicine still don’t recommend such methods that contains nicotine, because it will still lead to sudden infant deaths.
Comments
I wonder!
Posted by
Blithe:
2008-11-19 23:00:19
There are so many great posts on this site about addiction, I wonder how we could increase the viewing of these posts by people who need them the most. I guess that is what everyone who wants to help the addict asks themselves.
This post is great. I love reading about new news and new hope in the field of addiction. Please keep collecting these tid bits.
