Quit Smoking

Happy Valentine's Day to all our friends and readers. 

Give your heart a gift this Valentine's Day - Quit Smoking!

George Washington University has helpful resources here
http://www.gwu.edu/quitsmoking/

Quit smoking Wikis are here
http://quitsmoking.wikia.com/wiki/Quit_Smoking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_cessation

Our favorite method is to reduce smoking cravings with Vitamin B3 -  nicotinamide - which the brain may perceive as identical to nicotine.
Pharmaceuticals Anonymous: Niacin for Smoking Cessation

Medications to quit smoking can have unwanted side effects.
http://pharmaceuticalsanonymous.blogspot.com/2008/05/spoof-death-cures-smoking.html

Pharma exec implicated in meds murder-suicide

Gigi Jordan feeds son, 8, fatal dose of pills, leaves strange 2-page note in botched murder-suicide
Link

Remembering Andrea Yeats....

Hypothyroid and Suicide - an SSRI Connection?

Could the effects of Fluoride-related ingredients in Accutane, SSRI's and other medications that require Black Box warnings, be the cause of thyroid damage leading to suicidal ideation and acts? Could thyroid damage also be the cause of Bipolar disorder that sometimes emerges during antidepressant treatment?
Click on the image to see it in larger size, and on the PDF link to read the article in full.
Hypothyroid Presenting As Psychosis -Link to PDF



Thyroid-Disrupting Chemicals: Interpreting Upstream Biomarkers
of Adverse Outcomes

Seven-year old on antidepressants hangs himself

'Weeks before his death, Gabriel Myers, the 7-year-old Broward boy who hanged himself in the shower of his foster home, had been prescribed a powerful mind-altering drug linked by federal regulators to an increased risk of suicide in children.'
Link
Please, let's stop these tragedies.

Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
- W.B. Yeats.

Death Cures Smoking

Chantix, a smoking cessation drug, now carries serious warnings by the FDA. Chantix has been implicated in suicide, has been banned for pilot use by the FAA, and is now being sold by drug dealers as a recreational drug to teens.

UPDATE from May 2008: Some 800 Canadians are getting together to take action against Chantix, called Champix in that country. Link Thanks and a tip of the Mad Hatter's chapeau to Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons.

New Movie Damns Monsanto's Deadly Sins

A new movie has dealt yet another severe blow to the credibility of US based Monsanto, one of the biggest chemical companies in the world and the provider of the seed technology for 90 percent of the world’s genetically engineered (GE) crops.
The French documentary, called “The world according to Monsanto” and directed by independent filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals.
Link

bande annonce film Monsanto
by rue89

Lawsuits Against Antidepressant Makers On the Rise

Article and information on how to find legal representation for yourself is here.



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Pilgrim - a novel by Timothy Findley

What could be more fascinating than the story of a man who has lived 4,000 years, cannot die - and tells his story to Carl Gustav Jung at Zurich's Burgholzli Clinic? Read the first chapter here.
Visit the Jung Institute in Zurich here.