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"Therapies to help people stop smoking are safe, effective and may even enhance the long-term success of concurrent treatments for more severe mental health symptoms in individuals with psychiatric disorders by lowering stress, anxiety, depression and by improving overall mood and quality of life," Volkow said in a NIDA news release

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Yet, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that approximately 12.5% of adults in the US (nearly 31 million Americans) are current smokers

"The companies successfully influenced these physicians not only to promote the notion that smoking was healthful, but actually to recommend it as a treatment for throat irritation." Jackler is the senior author of the study, which was published in the January issue of The Laryngoscope

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