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Pregnant mums in Dundee who smoke are to be given bribes to encourage them to stay off cigarettes.

STREET TALK 
Smoking Puppets Tell Dad: Stop! by Melissa Scott Sinclair If your daughter asks you to put out your cigarette because a dragon and some singing lungs told her it could hurt her, heres who to blame: puppeteer Craig T. Adams.

400 TO STOP SMOKING 
PREGNANT women are to be given rewards worth up to 400 if they quit smoking. Health chiefs hope the reward scheme will help them cut smoking during pregnancy and make sure mums stay off cigarettes after they are born.

Free phones for young who quit smoking 
Cellphone giveaways are to be used to encourage more young people to give up smoking. The Health Research Council has allocated $1.5 million to Auckland University researchers to design a stop smoking programme of video and text messaging aimed at 18- to 24-year-olds.

400 TO STOP SMOKING IN PREGNANCY 
PREGNANT women are to be offered bribes worth hundreds of pounds to quit smoking. Health chiefs will give “rewards”, expected to include cinema tickets and grocery vouchers, to mums-to-be who pass regular breath tests.

Stop-smoking pill stimulates sex drive 
Q: I just read a question about whether or not bupropion could serve as a sexual stimulant for healthy people. I’m only one person, but I can answer: For one healthy woman the answer is yes. A thousand, happy times yes.

Senecas hope smoking will light up profits 
NIAGARA FALLS - Seneca Niagara Casino executives hope that where there’s smoke, there’s more money. A new indoor smoking ban that became law late last month across the Niagara River in Ontario now makes the Seneca casino the only gambling hall in Niagara Falls that allows patrons to light up.

PEOPLE’S PHARMACY | JOE GRAEDON AND TERESA GRAEDON: Bupropion can increase sexual desire 
Q. I just read a question about whether or not bupropion could serve as a sexual stimulant for healthy people. I’m only one person, but I can answer: For one healthy woman the answer is yes. I’m taking this drug to quit smoking. I have always had what I would consider an average libido. Now, however, I have an above-average libido — physically and mentally. I figure maybe it’s because the drug

WEIGHT LOSS -

PR Web (press release), WA - Jun 22, 2006A novel therapy called Thin From Within, now available in the United States could dramatically reduce overeating naturally. There …

Dealing With Excess, Loose Skin After Weight Loss
The Common Voice, SC - Jun 20, 2006… given. Again, let me be clear, I am VERY thankful for my weight loss, but seeing all this skin can be rather depressing sometimes. I …

Results from a phaseII study presented this week demonstrated the effects of VEC-162 in a modelof transient insomnia on the traditional measures of sleep onset andmaintenance. VEC-162, an investigational agent under clinical developmentby Vanda Pharmaceuticals for the treatment of insomnia, is a novelmelatonin agonist. [click link for full article]

The Scopolamine Addiction 
I recently spent $150 dollars on an alarm clock. This is one of many desperate attempts to get rid of sleep - which evolution should have done away with since the invention of the light bulb and the 24 hour Walgreen’s (for all your 4am chocolate needs). Scientists really need to get rid of this intrusion.

Cell Phone Emissions Excite The Brain Cortex 
Electromagnetic fields from cell phones excite the brain cortex adjacent to it, with potential implications for individuals with epilepsy, or other neurological conditions.

The rules that aren’t in the rules 
Baseball has a rule book which former St. Louis Cardinals manager Whitey Herzog once dead panned as a great cure for insomnia. We learn from time to time that baseball also has a variety of unwritten rules and players would be better off knowing these than the one that are written down.

‘I Love My Hand’ Becoming More Accepted 
Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) June 27, 2006 — When Brad Newman is stressed out he uses his hand, so are a growing number of people who have been introduced to his new product, aromahand.

Balance and good health in life ensure longevity, peace, harmony 
I had expected low interest, but was pleased to hear from readers about my columns — in the June 7 Pacific Daily News, “Bring balance to work-home life or stress will drag you to burnout,” and June 14’s “Learning to ‘live in goodness’ may help you find peace, harmony in life.”

Noven Confirms Availability of Daytrana(TM) Methylphenidate Transdermal System 
MIAMI—-June 29, 2006–Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today confirmed that Shire plc has launched Daytrana , the first and only transdermal medication approved to treat the symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in children aged six to twelve years, and that the product is now available in retail pharmacies.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Appears More Effective Than Sleep Medication For Treating Insomnia 
Patients with insomnia who implemented cognitive behavioral therapy interventions such as relaxation techniques had greater improvement in their sleep than patients who received the sleep medication zopiclone, according to a study in the June 28 issue of JAMA.Insomnia is usually defined as subjective complaints of poor sleep accompanied by impairment in daytime function. [click link for full

Insomnia: Talk Beats Sleeping Pills 
Title: Insomnia: Talk Beats Sleeping Pills Category: Health News Created: 6/28/2006 Last Editorial Review: 6/28/2006