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Smoking, as everyone knows by now, takes a serious toll on health. So when you decide to quit smoking, it can be a great time to think about making changes to your diet. One of the payoffs of smoking is enhancement to your senses of taste and smell, which can make food more pleasurable than it was when you were smoking, but to avoid weight gain and substitute addictions to food or drink, a healthy diet is essential. Read more...

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Many readers of the addictions guidesite will have had personal experience of discrimination within the healthcare system. People with addictions are among the most stigmatized of all patient groups, and drug users in particular, suffer from the judgements of health professionals. Read more...

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According to an article in the UK's Guardian newspaper, Broadway Lodge in Weston-super-Mare is the first clinic in the UK to offer treatment to people with video game addiction. Read more...

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I was recently talking to someone who quit smoking for her New Year's Resolution. She was constantly craving cigarettes and was "beyond irritable." Read more...