How to Stop Smoking When You're Stressed

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Jeffrey Toobin: Our cognitive wiring has learned looking at this screen, seeing Reddit comments, gives me this little bit of hit of something. So anything that's not that is taking a lot of energy and intention from you. He says we have the same principles as those who want to stop smoking when they get stressed. Toobin: What I would do is look at replacement activities with all different levels of energy requirements.

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