Spot in brain may control smoking urge

AP via yahoo ^ | 1/25/07 | LAURAN NEERGAARD

[jonascord]

Me too. Being sprawled, nekkid, in a hospital bed with a zipper from collar bone to tummy with tubes sticking out in all directions sure cuts your desire for a smoke...

[showme_the_Glory]

I had my brain removed so I wouldn't smoke.

[L98Fiero]

"Smoking is now a disability..."

If alcoholism is a disease, why isn't smoking?

[libertarian27]

The insula appears to be where the brain turns physical reactions into feelings, such as feeling anxious when your heart speeds up. When those reactions are caused by a particular substance, the insula may act like sort of a headquarters for cravings.

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This will be neat, a whole population unable to feel or crave anything - whether smoke, love or crave success at work.
This is just what the doctor ordered...Not.

[mutley]

"If alcoholism is a disease, why isn't smoking?"

Gosh...I never thought about that. I smoke...so...can I collect free money from somewhere? I already seem to be the only stooge who doesn't have a government handout card to present at the grocery store.

[Calpernia]

>>>I had my brain removed so I wouldn't smoke.

Now THAT is problem solving!

[ichabod1]

Bet this could be used to control the population, what do you think?

[Alter Kaker]

I had my brain removed so I wouldn't smoke.

Well, judging from the quality of posters on most tobacco-related threads on FR, removal of the brain neither inhibits smoking nor prevents one from posting on the internet.

[ishabibble]

My mother suffered a basilar aneurysm in October, 1988. She had been a heavy smoker for years, and she completely forgot that she ever smoked. It was always very puzzling to me.

As for the information in this article, I think I will send it along to the anesthesiologist who had sedated my mom for knee surgery 22 hrs. before her brain blew up (she was already a patient in the hospital for knee surgery when it happened). He said the aneurysm was probably from the smoking.

[showme_the_Glory]

I was thinking the same thing ping.....

[trumandogz]

"If alcoholism is a disease, why isn't smoking?"

And now, both will demand 'special rights.'

[InsensitiveConservative]

How interesting. So her smoking caused the aneurysm which caused her to forget she smoked.

[ishabibble]

I don't think so...the anesthesia guy just got spooked when my sister grabbed him and shrieked, "What did you do to my mother?" in his face. Smoking is the all-purpose defense for doctors, they blame everything on it. We had to take her to Canada for the surgery. Another ironic twist when I look back now.

Mom never did remember craving a cigarette for the rest of her life. She never recovered and was in a wheelchair for years. She once told me that she started smoking at aged 18 yrs. on her honeymoon in Niagara Falls. She laughed and said it was smoking or jumping! Mom was a nervous bride!

[trumandogz]

The same spot in my brain stops me from paying voluntary taxes.

[Gritty]

Yeah. I think the spot is located in the "Nanny State Behavior Enabler", right next to the "Entitlement Synapse", in the 8 o'clock position. I think that's it.

[libertarian27]

So sorry to hear what happened to your mother.
My MIL is in a nursing home after surgery - extreme dimensia set in immediately after surgery/drugs administered.
BTW - she never smoked.

And yes, what a convenient way to control the population.
I Betcha' there will be a 'pill for that' in the near future.

Advertised in the News Hour right along with all the other pills Pharma is pushing into our gullets every day.
No thanks....

[elkfersupper]

Well, judging from the quality of posters on most tobacco-related threads on FR, removal of the brain neither inhibits smoking nor prevents one from posting on the internet.

Nor does it inhibit some people from advocating absolute control of others' small legal pleasures.

[Alter Kaker]

Nor does it inhibit some people from advocating absolute control of others' small legal pleasures.

Really? Now who would you say is doing that?

[elkfersupper]

Really? Now who would you say is doing that?

City, county, state, and soon federal legislators across this country; acting upon disinformation from a core group of well-funded kooks.

Failing that, they take it to the mob.

[Bernard Marx]

A cigarette after sex, you say? What's sex?