No quick fix for smokers patches fail as habit lingers
Four months without a cigarette turned Roberta Ward into a bear. Now near Phoenix, she tries quitting again with a nicotine skin patch but warns it is not a quick fix. About 3 million Americans have used the prescription patches in eight months, yet costs run 200 to 500 dollars and insurance often balks. Behavioral modification remains essential, say doctors and Smokebusters experts.
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Loch Ness survey reports contact with unidentified object
Project Urquhart scientists say sonar locked onto something unidentified in Loch Ness mid water for about two minutes before contact was lost. Rob Manson notes large solid sounding from a stationary object on military-style sonar 650 feet behind the vessel. Nicholas Witchell cautions against assuming Nessie.
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