Growing up in the East 90's smoking surreptitiously in their Chapin kilts, Ms. Topping and her friends would later hone their newly acquired smoking skills at places like Dorrian's Red Hand, Ryan's Daughter or Three Guys and chastise one another for unladylike gestures.
Plasma homocysteine concentration is controlled by genetic (MTHFR C677T mutation), nutritional (vitamins folate, B6, B12) and acquired (smoking, alcohol consumption, renal diseases, malignancies, inflammation, daily physical activity) factors [34].
It may well be that corticosteroid insensitivity is gradually acquired by smoking in COPD, and one might hypothesise that smokers who develop COPD are more prone to have signs of corticosteroid insensitivity.
Parents affect the norms of children with respect to smoking by communicating constructively about smoking-related issues, setting household rules against smoking, acquiring additional smoking-related knowledge, and monitoring their children's activities.
Higher cigarette prices will hopefully dissuade young people from acquiring a smoking habit in their youth.
NRT provides a means of delivering nicotine that was formerly acquired through smoking, and thereby relieves cravings for nicotine and the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal.
Most patients with UC are nonsmokers, and patients with a history of smoking usually acquire their disease after they have stopped smoking [ 5– 7].
At first, relationships with the local Timucuans were friendly, and some of the French settlers took native wives and soon acquired the habit of smoking a certain local "herb".
A significant fraction of postbariatric patients acquire new addictions like gambling, smoking, compulsive shopping or alcoholism once they are no longer addicted to eating.
But of course there is a dark side to habits, namely that we acquire bad ones, like smoking or overeating.
