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Barbara Patterson[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote: >Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 08:48:46 -0300 (ADT) >From: Barbara Duffin-Bates <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: PD and smoking > >This is very interesting. My husband flirted with pipe smoking years >ago, but decided that it was silly and just stopped. No problem >and no desire to resume the habit. >He has had PD for 11 years now. > >Barb Bates > > Date sent: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 04:46:27 EST > From: NIGEL COCKLE <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: PD and smoking > > In my youth, I smoked both cigarettes and a pipe from time to > time. I used to smoke because I enjoyed it but always found it > very easy to stop and couldn't understand how people became > addicted. > > Is it possible that people who are going to develop PD have a > brain chemistry that does not respond to nicotine? This might > explain why non smokers are more likely to get PD. Have Parkies > on this list found giving up smoking difficult? > > Nigel Cockle (PD 12 years) > > My father, a lifelong smoker, gave it up cold turkey one day in 1970. No difficulties quitting; diagnosed PD 1971. ----------- Robert [log in to unmask]