The Willpower Debate: Why Can’t Obama Quit Smoking?
President Obama’s press conference covered a lot of topics yesterday?including, unexpectedly, his continuing struggle to quit smoking. To help us understand just how hard it is for some people to break their nicotine addiction, we turn to Dr. Richard Hurt, Director of the Mayo Clinic’s Nicotine Dependence Center.
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