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How a Tattoo Could Save Your Life
Once reserved for sailors and rock stars, tattoos have become so mainstream, you may soon be seeing them in hospitals.
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Could Text Messages Help People Quit Smoking?
Smokers desperate to quit may want to try asking their friends and relatives to barrage them with encouraging text messages, a new study in the UK medical journal The Lancet suggests.
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25 Ways to Stop Smoking
For all the intense efforts to reduce smoking in America over the past two decades, the progress has not been stellar. Today one in four men and one in five women still smoke.
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Ways to Quit Smoking Without Weight Gain
Most people looking for ways to quit smoking worry about weight gain, and with good reason. Smokers who quit tend to pack on an average of 5 pounds after they stop smoking cigarettes. A new study, published by the journal Science, explains why this happens, paving the way for novel smoking cessation and obesity treatment options.
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6 Ways to Treat Pain
People frustrated by traditional medicine sometimes turn to non-medicinal forms of treatment for relief. Find out how some of these alternative treatments may actually benefit you. (Remember to always discuss these options with your doctor beforehand to make sure you are a good candidate for treatments of any kind.)











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