A psychiatrist who specializes in addiction says that tobacco smokers are citing the coronavirus pandemic as an incentive to quit. They’re spurned not only by the fact that smoking increases the risk of complications from COVID-19, but also by the difficulties of obtaining and smoking tobacco that have been spurned on by the pandemic.
Writing in The Conversation, Dr. Amy Harrington, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, says that she works with patients who smoke tobacco, or “vape” it — that is, getting their product from a machine that vaporizes an oil containing nicotine, that is then inhaled into the lungs. She says that many of her patients have told her that the coronavirus pandemic has been just the incentive they need to give up their habit.
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