Author Archives: StopSmoking

No scientific evidence that e-cigarettes are less harmful: Health experts

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[ad_1] New Delhi: The growing use of e-cigarettes or ENDS (Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems), also known as vaping devices, has become a cause of great concern globally as well as in India. The perception that e-cigarettes are safe, less harmful than burned tobacco cigarettes and nicotine free has been challenged by experts and organisations like the WHO. Also, it has been disproved that e-cigarettes replace smoking and instead complement cigarette smoking. Claims of companies manufacturing e-cigarettes that it is harmless are being questioned. According to a health […]

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Smokers Face Higher Risk of Developing Tuberculosis: Expert

[ad_1] TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (FKUI) Tjandra Yoga Aditama reminded that smokers are at greater risk of falling ill and experiencing disrupted healing of disease and even succumbing to tuberculosis (TB). Through his electronic message, on Saturday, he cited data that showed a link to smoking habits in one in five TB patients in the world. Data from the 2021 Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) showed that around 34.5 percent of Indonesia’s population smoked or consumed various types of […]

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New Therapeutic Approaches Involving Psychopharmacology, Digital Technology, and fMRI Neurofeedback

[ad_1] This issue of the Journal brings together very clinically relevant papers that present new data aimed at improving interventions for the treatment of alcohol use disorder, binge-eating disorder, psychotic disorders, ADHD, and depression. The issue begins with a timely overview that provides an up-to-date summary on the use of technology in psychiatry (1). Authored by Dr. Phillip Harvey from the University of Miami along with others from the APA Council on Research, this overview summarizes current technological approaches aimed at improving diagnoses, monitoring symptoms, enhancing medication […]

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Incannex Healthcare Ltd enlists Eurofins Scientific to make CannQuit products for addiction disorders

[ad_1] Incannex Healthcare Ltd (ASX:IHL, NASDAQ:IXHL) has engaged Eurofins Scientific, a multinational contract development and manufacturing organisation, to develop and produce its CannQuit medicated chewable products designed to treat nicotine and opioid addiction disorders. CannQuit Nicotine (CannQuit-N) and CannQuit Opioid (CannQuit-O) are combination drug assets with granted patents and patent applications that were transferred to Incannex as a result of its acquisition of APIRx Pharmaceuticals in August this year. “Opioid and nicotine addiction are significant health problems and a major burden on health systems throughout the world,” […]

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