Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study, which consists of papers and discussions from a November 1985 conference, examines the uses and problems of nicotine replacement--transferring dependency from cigarettes to nicotine gum or other drugs...
...combination of nicotine gum and behavior modification programs may prove the most effective therapy for smokers who want to quit, according to a study released yesterday by a Kennedy School research institute...
...report also concluded that nicotine gum is a cost effective way of combatting smoking addiction. CVS in Harvard Square sells Nicorette--nicotine gum available by prescription--for $18.98 a pack, which includes 96 chewing gum pieces. Hitchcock said that the maximum amount used each day is between 10 and 15 pieces...
Byerly's places special emphasis on helpfulness. Each store employs a full- time home economist, who can work with customers on everything from menu planning to getting bubble gum out of household carpets to figuring how much food to buy for a party of 300. The home-ec experts maintain "special-foods programs" of particular dietary products at each outlet. Says Byerly: "Let's say your doctor prescribed a low-sodium diet. The home economist will give you a blue folder listing everything that you can buy in the store that's low sodium. And each of the products...
American plaque sufferers, all 100 million of you, take heart. In addition to special pastes and floss, there is now Interplak, a battery-operated brush specially engineered to combat the residue of food and bacteria that collects between and under teeth and can eventually lead to gum disease. Unlike the head of an ordinary electric model, the one on Interplak does not move; instead, its ten tiny tufts rotate, each making 1 1/2 turns, then reversing direction. "All the power is in the bristles," says John Trenary, president of Dental Research Corp., the Georgia-based firm that makes the device...