Serenity Quest

Magnificent writer!

"The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth."


“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.”


“It is never to late to be what you might have been.”


“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined ... to strengthen each other ... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”


- George Eliot English Victorian Novelist (Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880

Published in LifeScript HEALTH NEWS BYTE
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

While smoking is never a healthy habit, a new study finds that women may be more sensitive to the effects of nicotine than men. Researchers at the University of California-San Francisco report that female patients in a recent study showed a faster rate of nicotine absorption than men. Perhaps most intriguingly, nicotine absorption rates were fastest among women who were taking oral contraceptives. Researchers called for further study, but hypothesized that hormones such as estrogen may play a role in the body's metabolism of nicotine. The study also suggested that nicotine remains in the body longer in men than women.


Interesting study. Nasty habit anyway and I will stop smoking tomorrow!