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...pill that might replace nicotine, which is powerfully addictive and - especially when delivered through cigarette smoke - incredibly dangerous. And in 2006, the holy grail seemed to have been found. Pfizer released Chantix, a drug the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved in May of that year to help smokers quit. Since then, doctors have written more than 6 million prescriptions for Chantix. It's no magic bullet. Chantix fails with most people who take it; fewer than half of those on the drug actually stop smoking. But going cold turkey works for fewer than one in 10 smokers...
...cure-all. In another new study, this one published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, a team led by Seattle researcher Jennifer McClure found that a group of smokers with a previous history of depression experienced irritability, anxiety and depressive symptoms slightly more frequently while trying to quit with varenicline than smokers with no prior history of depression...
...study did find that among the 1,117 patients who took varenicline, 43% were cigarette-free after three months. But the balance of evidence so far suggests that while trying to quit one drug by taking another may be useful, you don't get something for nothing. Swallowing a pill is better than poisoning your lungs with smoke or pickling your liver with bourbon, but you shouldn't fool yourself into thinking the pill can't harm...
...heated rhetoric he has used in recent weeks towards his own party has shocked some of his longtime observers. Just last week, Bunning reportedly told party donors that if the party kept pressuring him, he would simply quit and allow the Democratic governor of Kentucky to appoint his replacement. He has since denied the claims, and did so to TIME again this week through a spokesman. But the Louisville Courier-Journal, the state's leading newspaper, has stuck with its story, citing three sources who say they heard Bunning make the threat...
...Center in Austin, Texas. The call center fields about a million calls a year, offering answers questions both simple and complex, from "Where can I get help with transportation when I can't drive to chemo appointments?" to "How do I find insurance if my illness forces me to quit...