Smoking cessation - Smoking cessation Smoking cessation is an umbrella term for the effort to stop smoking addictive tobacco products. Effective techniques include: "Cold turkey": stopping by force of will Nicotine replacement therapy (includes transdermal patches and nicotine gum) The antidepressant Zyban (also sold as Wellbutrin) Alternative techniques include: Hypnosis Herbal preparations such as Kava Kava and Chamomile Nutritional nicotine detoxification Acupuncture External Links http://www.quitnet.com.
Tobacco smoking - Tobacco smoking Tobacco smoking is the practice of drawing tobacco smoke into the mouth. In the case of cigarette smoking, it also involves the inhaling of tobacco smoke. Tobacco smoke contains nicotine, which is highly addictive when inhaled. Nicotine is one of thousands of chemicals contained in cigarette smoke. The most widespread form of tobacco smoking is smoking of cigarettes, followed by pipe smoking and cigar smoking. Lighting a cigarette etc. is done with a lighter or match. One of the most common favors asked from a stranger is for a light; it is also used to get into contact with someone. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Health effects 3 Moral aspects 4 Legal aspects History Tobacco smoking, using both pipes and cigars, was long.
Acupuncture - value to expand its use into conventional medicine and to encourage further studies of its physiology and clinical value." This acceptance is part of an overall trend towards the acceptance of complementary and alternative medicine in the West. The NIH statement noted that "the data in support of acupuncture are as strong as those for many accepted Western medical therapies", and added that "the incidence of adverse effects is substantially lower than that of many drugs or other accepted medical procedures used for the same condition. As an example, musculoskeletal conditions, such as fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, and tennis elbow... are conditions for which acupuncture may be beneficial. These painful conditions are often treated with, among other things, anti-inflammatory medicationss (aspirin, ibuprofen, etc.) or with steroid injections. Both medical interventions have a.
Bupropion HCl - is owned by GlaxoSmithKline, who sell the compound as Wellbutrin®. It has been shown to aid cessation of cigarette smoking and is sold for this purpose as Zyban. It also promotes weight loss and does not exacerbate acne. Its exact mode of action is unknown. Side effects include sleepnessness. External Links Wellbutrin Pharmacology, Pharmacokinetics, Studies, Metabolism - Bupropion - RxList Monographs NAMI Wellbutrin This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Cigarette - cigarette's smoke; the filter serves to cool and somewhat clean the smoke. Before the Second World War many manufacturers gave away collectible cards, one in each packet of cigarettes. This practice was discontinued to save paper during the war, and was never generally reintroduced. On April 1, 1970 President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States starting on January 1, 1971. A Premier cigarette was smokeless cigarette released in the USA in 1988 by RJR. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Cigarettes and cancer 2 Consumption 3 Health Effects 4 Cigarette manufacturers 5 Brands Cigarettes and cancer Cigarette smoking is one of the principal causes of lung cancer, a major cause of death amongst smokers. The tobacco industry tried for.
Tobacco - tabacum N. tomentosa Ref: ITIS 30562 as of 2002-08-28 Tobacco is a broad-leafed plant of the nightshade family, indigenous to North America, whose dried and cured leaves are often smoked in the form of a cigar or cigarette, or in a smoking pipe, or in a water pipe or a hookah. Tobacco is also chewed, "dipped" (placed between the cheek and gum), and consumed as finely powdered snuff tobacco, which is sniffed into the nose. The word "tobacco" is an Anglicization of the Spanish word "tabaco", whose roots are unclear; it is thought to derive from a Native American word for the pipe in which tobacco was smoked. Tobacco contains nicotine, a stimulant that is highly addictive. All of the mentioned means of consuming tobacco result in the absorption of nicotine.
Vegetarianism - first vegetarian groups in England and the United States. Rastafarians generally follow a diet called "I-tal," which eschews the eating of food that has been artificially preserved, flavoured, or chemically altered in any way. Many Rastafarians consider it to also forbid the eating of meat. Genesis 1:29 states "And God said: Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree that has seed-yielding fruit - to you it shall be for food." According to many classical Jewish Bible commentators, this means that God's original plan was for mankind to be vegetarian. According to many rabbis, God later gave permission for man to eat meat because of man's weak nature, but the ideal would be for man to be vegetarian..
Kaveri River - The Kaveri river is the locus of a water dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. That dispute is complicated by, and mirrors, political issues of resentment and one-up-manship between the peoples of the two states. Points of Interest Srirangapattana Shivasamudram Vishvesvaraya Dam Hogenakkal Falls (meaning "smoking rock"): The spray of the river hitting the rocks is so fine that it appears like smoke Thiruchirapalli (Trichy).
Keith Thibodeaux - when he was "discovered" by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. At age 5, he took a $300 pay cut and became "Little Ricky" on the television series, frequently playing the drums on the show. At the age of 15, Thibodeaux's Hollywood career was over, so he moved back to Louisiana with his mother. Thibodeaux began smoking marijuana in high school, which eventually led to the use of uppers, downers, LSD, and other drugs. In 1969, Thibodeaux joined a rock group called David and the Giants. The group primarily toured throughout southern states and enjoyed a few regional hits. In 1971, when he reached the age of 21, he received the final payment of $8,000 from a trust fund set up during his days on I Love Lucy. He spent half of.
Kipper - Seahouses in Northumberland, England around 1843. Local legend states that this happened accidentally, when fish for processing was left overnight in a room with a smoking stove. It was assumed that the fish would be wasted but on checking they were found to be delicious. This photo shows the place, in a street about 50m from Seahouses harbour, where the kipper "accident" is said to have occurred. See also: food preservation, curing, smoking.
King of the Hill - to co-create King of the Hill with former The Simpsons producer/writer, Greg Daniels. Characters Hank Hill, salesman for "propane and propane accessories." Peggy Hill, wife of Hank, substitute teacher. Bobby Hill, son of Hank and Peggy, who wants to be a prop comic. Luanne Platter, niece of Peggy, creator of Manger Babies, student of the beauty academy and later, local college. Boomhauer, womanizing friend of Hank who mutters incomprehensibly. Dale Gribble, chain smoking neighbor to the Hills, insect exterminator, conspiracy theorist. Bill Dauterive, overweight neighbor of the Hills, a barber and sergeant in the United States Army, whose wife left him. Joseph Gribble, son of Dale (although John Redcorn is the biological father, unbeknownst to Dale). Nancy Gribble, wife of Dale, weather girl on local television station, having affair with John.
Kings Cross fire - of stopping at the platforms, the trains continued through, acting like pistons in the confines of the tunnel and forcing an air draft up the chimney-like escalator shaft, fanning the fire further. (This "piston effect" is well known, but is usually beneficial because it keeps air circulating between the deep tube stations.) The Kings Cross fire led to the banning of smoking throughout the London Underground network, and the eventual removal of all wooden escalators from Underground stations. The publication of the Fennell Report into the fire resulted in the introduction of the Fire Precautions (Sub-surface Railway Stations) Regulations 1989. See also Kings Cross station Reference Desmond Fennell, Investigation into the King's Cross Underground Fire. The Stationery Office Books; ISBN 0101049927.
Kings Cross St. Pancras tube station - between Euston Square and Farringdon. It is in zone 1. The Victoria line platforms opened on December 1, 1968, three months after the rest of the Victoria line did. On November 18, 1987 the station was the scene of the devastating Kings Cross fire which killed thirty-one people. As a result of the fire, fire safety procedures on the Underground were tightened and smoking banned throughout the entire network..
J. R. Bob Dobbs - J. R. Bob Dobbs J. R. "Bob" Dobbs is the pipe-smoking figurehead of the Church of the SubGenius. His image is derived from a piece of 1950s clip-art. According to SubGenius dogma, "Bob" was an aluminum-siding salesman in the 1950s who saw a vision of God on a television set he had built himself. The vision inspired him to write the "PreScriptures" (as described in the Book of the SubGenius) and found the Church. "Bob" has been credited by Church members as being the greatest salesman who ever lived, and he has apparently cheated death itself a number of times. He was assassinated in San Francisco in 1984, though the Church states that he has come back from the dead several times since then..
January 1 - Nicola becomes President of the State of Italy 1956 - End of Anglo-Egyptian Condominium in Sudan. 1959 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista overthrown by Fidel Castro. 1960 - Cameroon becomes independent 1960 - USS Raritan (LSM-540) is struck from the naval register. 1962 - Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand 1964 - Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland dissolved 1969 - Marien Ngouabi becomes President of the Republic of Congo 1970 - Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC. 1971 - Cigarette advertisements banned on United States television 1973 - United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark join the EEC 1978 - An Air India Boeing 747 exploded and crashed into the sea off the coast of Bombay killing 213 1979 - United States and the People's Republic of China establish formal diplomatic relations 1981.
January 11 - Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies. 1942 - The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur. 1943 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. 1946 - Enver Hoxha declares the people's republic of Albania with himself as dictator. 1949 - First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California. 1960 - Chad declares its independence. 1962 - Eruption of the volcano Huascaran in Peru; 4000 deaths. 1963 - The Whiskey-a-Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. 1964 - United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous for one's health. First such statement from US government. 1972 - East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh. 1973 - Beginning of the Watergate burglars trial. 1980 -.
Jack London - controversial. Many older sources describe it as a suicide, and some still do (e.g., the Columbia Encyclopedia [1]). However, this appears to be at best a rumor, or speculation. His death certificate gives the cause as uremia. It is known that he was in extreme pain and taking morphine, and it is possible that a morphine overdose, accidental or deliberate, may have contributed. The noted London scholar Dr. Clarice Stasz writes that "Following London's death, for a number of reasons a biographical myth developed in which he has been portrayed as an alcoholic womanizer who committed suicide. Recent scholarship based upon firsthand documents challenges this caricature."[1] In his autobiographical novel Martin Eden, the protagonist commits suicide by drowning, a detail which undoubtedly contributed to the myth. Jack London's ashes are buried,.
Jaundice - a low level without any intervention required: the jaundice is presumably a consequence of metabolic and physiological adjustments after birth. Infants with neonatal jaudice are typically treated by exposing them to high levels of blue light which breaks down the bilirubin. Brief exposure to direct sunlight each day and breastfeeding are also helpful. In neonates, jaundice tends to develop because of two factors - the breakdown of fetal hemoglobin as it is replaced with "normal" hemoglobin and the relatively immature hepatic metabolic pathways which are unable to conjugate bilirubin as fast as an adult. If the neonatal jaundice does not clear up with simple phototherapy, other causes such as biliary atresia should be considered. Breastfeeding jaundice A not well understood cause of jaundice is breastfeeding, which is a diagnosis of exclusion.
Jackass - Chippendale's in a thong and bowtie to the embarassment of those around him. The Meter Fairy (Ehren McGhehey) - McGhehey dressed in a pink fairy outfit and went around putting change in other people's overdue parking meters. This seeming act of generosity was played for gags both by McGhehey's costume and by ribbing the Traffic Enforcement Police, who informed him several times that putting change in other peoples' meters is illegal. Johnny Knoxville and others participated in the Gumball 3000 Britain to Russia and back rally for the show. In summer 2003, Johnny Knoxville left the show. Remaining cast members are now featured in the shows Viva la Bam and Wildboyz. Jackass has been blamed for a number of deaths and injuries involving teens and children imitating the stunts. In 2001,.
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde - in the expedition to Naas, and in the march into the Pale in 1642. The lords justices, who were jealous of his power, recalled him after he had succeeded in relieving Drogheda. He received the public thanks of the English parliament and a jewel of the value of £620. On 15 April 1642 he won the battle of Kilrush against Lord Mountgarret. On 30 August 1642 he was created a marquess, and on 16 September 1642 was appointed lieutenant-general with a commission direct from the king. On 18 March 1643 he won the Battle of New Ross against Thomas Preston, afterwards Viscount Tara. In September, the civil war in England having meanwhile broken out, Ormonde, in view of the successes of the rebels and the uncertain loyalty of the Scotss in.
