New Medication for Stop Smoking

A new medication assisting the smoker to quit such pattern of behavior has been in trade in the British markets recently.

The British National Health Service approved to pay the charged price of the medication titled “Zyban”, which has been faced with vigorous enthusiasm since it proved its success in aiding people abstain from smoking.

The new medication is available in tablets, having influence on the brain after being swallowed, hence quenching the desire such tobacco products might stimulate.

Acquiring the government authorization, this remedy is considered to be the first to counter smoking; and it does not include the substance of nicotine.

Smokers More Prone to Heart Attacks

Ingredients of cigarettes ambush the heart

Scientists discovered a new reason urging the smoker to stop. It was figured out that those who use tobacco have a very low percentage of a chemical substance responsible for protecting the heart from diseases.
Such scientific discovery would provide the explanation for the rise of possibilities of heart attack among smokers. The percentage doubles among the latter rather than
non-smokers.

Towards Addiction-Free Society

Entitled “Drug Abuse & Addiction; Scourge of Modern Times”, a significant symposium on drug abuse and addiction has been held in the Jeddah-based Saudi German Hospital. The medical gathering has also tackled means of prevention, the period of therapy, the currently adopted kinds of treatment as well as the feasibility of medical, psychological, behavioral and parental therapy. All these issues, among others, would be discussed in the general symposium “Towards Addiction-Free Society”. During the scientific assembly, lecturers have defined the fundamental principles the Arab family shall embrace when dealing with such a grave problem in view of prevention and the right therapy with reference to the recent medical researches and the long field experience gained in that domain.