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		<title>Chantix &#124; Cure to Quit Smoking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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 My life is so not glamorous. Because I have such a small practice (circa 2006), I usually can&#8217;t afford to have outside help. But now we&#8217;re hiring a nurse practitioner, and we&#8217;ve been hauling things all over, hammering away, dusting behind corners that haven&#8217;t seen light since 1904, yadda yadda yadda. 
Things could be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anterograde Amenesia &#124; &#8220;Memories, like the corner of my&#8230;what?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Forget it&#8211; it never happened!&#8221; 
How many times have we heard that from dysfunctional or unethical people? (Or at least in TV, movies, and books?)
If you&#8217;re like an elephant, you never forget anything. Some people can hold onto a grudge longer than a parent who reminds a daughter how she ruined Thanksgiving in 1942 by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endocannabinoids &#124; Can you lose weight with &#8220;anti-marijuana&#8221; medicine?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 01:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Endocannabinoids: losing weight?
Rosie O&#8217;Donnell and Donald Trump need to hash it out more so they can continue to irritate America!  C&#8217;mon, Donald! You&#8217;re a rich successful man and, yes, your last name is &#8220;Trump, but you&#8217;re acting more like Donald Duck.
Lionel Ritchie needs to hash it out with his daughter, Nicole. Personally, I wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quit Smoking &#124; Cold Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Smokin&#8217; in the Boys Room&#8221; is a pretty popular song. &#8220;Everybody knows that smokin&#8217; ain&#8217;t allowed in school.&#8221; (Didn&#8217;t the songwriter know &#8220;ain&#8217;t&#8221; ain&#8217;t a word?) 
One of my classmates got caught smoking when he was 10 years old. Do you know what his father did to punish him? He made him smoke two packs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/addiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 substance comes from craving and/or the compulsive need to use it whether from physical or psychological dependence. 
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		<title>How Much Alcohol is Too Much Alcohol : Stop in the name of love!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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 putting them in the ash try! (How would litterers feel if someone threw used toilet paper inside their cars?) Bad talent who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcoholic Cerebellar Degeneration : Worse than putting a lamp shade on your head</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 22:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dionne Warwick ruled the airwaves before her show, Solid Gold, became tainted with green and her Psychic Hotline went bankrupt-couldn&#8217;t predict that!  
&#8220;If you see me walking down the street, And I start to cry, Each time we meet, Walk on by&#8230; dah, dah, dah, dah, dah.&#8221; Johnny Cash Walked the Line and probably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endocannabinoids: Can you lose weight with &#8220;anti-marijuana&#8221; medicine?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Endocannabinoids: losing weight?
Rosie O&#8217;Donnell and Donald Trump need to hash it out more so they can continue to irritate America!  C&#8217;mon, Donald! You&#8217;re a rich successful man and, yes, your last name is &#8220;Trump, but you&#8217;re acting more like Donald Duck.
Lionel Ritchie needs to hash it out with his daughter, Nicole. Personally, I wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chantix: Quit Smoking!</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/chantix-quit-smoking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ My life is so not glamorous. Because I have such a small practice, I usually can&#8217;t afford to have outside help. But now we&#8217;re hiring a nurse practitioner, and we&#8217;ve been hauling things all over, hammering away, dusting behind corners that haven&#8217;t seen light since 1904, yadda yadda yadda. 
Things could be worse&#8211; like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cut Off: How much booze is too much?</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/cut-off-how-much-booze-is-too-much/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/cut-off-how-much-booze-is-too-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, haven&#8217;t learned their limit. Over-drinkers, meanwhile, treat their limit as a minimum: like a night club that requires a two-drink minimum. 
So how does one know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quit Smoking!  You are choking the rest of us</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2004/quit-smoking-you-are-choking-the-rest-of-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2004/quit-smoking-you-are-choking-the-rest-of-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grandma Walton said something like, &#8220;If God intended people to smoke, He would have put chimney tops on our heads.&#8221; 
I don&#8217;t remember much about The Waltons, but I do remember that phrase, because smoking is one of the worst things you can do to yourself. What about other people? Second-hand smoke is still being [...]]]></description>
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