Friday, January 26, 2007

The Easiest Way To Stop Smoking.

Blunt head trauma. What if you just forgot that you ever smoked in the first place? Or that you had an addiction, a dog, or a family... Admittedly whacking people on the noggin isn't probably the best treatment, and the article starts off with stroke as the catalyst. But studies show that damaging parts of the brain can help people forget to be addicted to cigaretttes *poof* overnight. "The researchers found that damage to the insula – a brain region that promotes conscious feelings of hunger, pain and cravings – allowed some heavy smokers to quit with ease." Sounds great, a world with no hunger, no pain, no cigarettes. How do you give strokes to people on purpose?

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