Sentences with phrase «months of abstinence»

Alcohol probably won't even be an issue during the first trimester; many women get «morning sickness» (and afternoon and evening sickness) and don't want to drink, so you're probably facing only six months of abstinence.

Now neurobiologists have shown that lab rats respond in the same way, even after months of abstinence, making those animals a potentially valuable tool for finding ways to help former addicts stay clean.

After performing an initial scan on all participants, 15 smokers who successfully quit were scanned again after three months of abstinence from smoking and nicotine replacement.

I have terrible pregnancies where eating makes me sick so, when I have my babies, I eat more junk than I should after nine long months of abstinence.

Marijuana, or cannabis, stays in the body much longer than most other drugs, and can take weeks or months of abstinence to completely clear out of your system.

When Brown had a chance to check the other scores around the conference, a Super Bowl trip — and another month of abstinence — seemed even more feasible.

Not exact matches

It may have to do with Addyi's high pricing (on par with Viagra at $ 26 per pill without an assistance program), its daily intake requirement (unlike Viagra, it adds up to $ 780 per month), its potentially deleterious side effects (low blood pressure and fainting), its restrictions on alcohol consumption (abstinence vs. large quantities not recommended for Viagra patients), a 10 % efficacy rate (whereas Viagra works 50 % of the time compared to a placebo, according to a recent study), and its subtle neurotransmitter - targeting mechanism (contrast that to the obvious hydraulics of Viagra).

(CNN)- Muslims around the world on Monday ushered in Ramadan, a month of dawn - to - dusk abstinence from food and drinks.

It is a considerable test of endurance since the ninth Moslem month lasts a full thirty days and demands abstinence from food, drink and sexual relations from dawn to dusk.

The most effective forms of contraception, ranked by «Perfect use»: --(Abstinence, 0 % failure rate)--(Masturbation, mono or mutual, 0 % failure rate) Followed by: One - month injectable and Implant (both at 0.05 percent) Vasectomy and IUD (Mirena)(both at 0.1 percent) The Pill, Three - month injectable, and the Patch (all at 0.3 percent) Tubal sterilization (at 0.5 percent) IUD (Copper - T)(0.6 percent) Periodic abstinence (Post-ovulation)(1.0 percent) Periodic abstinence (Symptothermal) and Male condom (both at 2.0 percent) Periodic abstinence (Ovulation method)(3.Abstinence, 0 % failure rate)--(Masturbation, mono or mutual, 0 % failure rate) Followed by: One - month injectable and Implant (both at 0.05 percent) Vasectomy and IUD (Mirena)(both at 0.1 percent) The Pill, Three - month injectable, and the Patch (all at 0.3 percent) Tubal sterilization (at 0.5 percent) IUD (Copper - T)(0.6 percent) Periodic abstinence (Post-ovulation)(1.0 percent) Periodic abstinence (Symptothermal) and Male condom (both at 2.0 percent) Periodic abstinence (Ovulation method)(3.abstinence (Post-ovulation)(1.0 percent) Periodic abstinence (Symptothermal) and Male condom (both at 2.0 percent) Periodic abstinence (Ovulation method)(3.abstinence (Symptothermal) and Male condom (both at 2.0 percent) Periodic abstinence (Ovulation method)(3.abstinence (Ovulation method)(3.0 percent)

And my husband and I still refer to it as the immaculate conception, b / c neither of us can recall anything more than abstinence that month.

Over six months, 86 percent of participants receiving implants and 72 percent receiving sublingual buprenorphine maintained abstinence from opioids.

Findings indicate that the implants are non-inferior to sublingual buprenorphine in the main outcome measure, which was maintaining abstinence from illicit opioids in at least four of the six study months.

Definitions of smoking abstinence were generally poor, and only five of the 10 studies assigned patients to smoking categories on the basis of smoking status recorded at six months or more after diagnosis.

Patients were followed up for smoking status at six months or longer in five studies, 16 22 23 26 28 but smoking was only measured at the time of diagnosis or treatment in four studies, 17 21 24 27 and follow - up was not defined in one study.25 Two studies defined quitting as continuous abstinence from within six months of starting treatment to longest follow - up, 22 23 and one study defined quitting as continuous abstinence during and after treatment.21 The remaining studies did not give a definition of quitting.

«But there are certainly limits,» she says, «and we often see improvement only after months of complete abstinence and giving the brain time to heal.»

Eid ul fitri is a Muslim holiday; a day of celebration after a month of fasting and abstinence in Ramadan.

The congressional watchdog agency, in a report dated Oct. 3 but released this month, surveyed 10 states that received the largest share of funding from the abstinence education grant program.

Efficacy of a theory - based abstinence - only intervention over 24 months: A randomized control trial with young adolescents.

CBT - E was superior to long - term psychoanalytic psychotherapy with regard to abstinence from binge eating and purging at 5 months (ie, at the conclusion of CBTE - E and 5 months into long - term psychoanalytic psychotherapy) and 24 months (ie, at the conclusion of long - term psychoanalytic psychotherapy and 19 months after the conclusion of CBT - E) after the onset of treatment.

The adolescents who received the BPBR intervention believed more strongly that practicing abstinence would prevent, pregnancy, STDs, and AIDS (p <.0001, p =.04, p =.04), expressed less favorable attitudes toward sexual intercourse (p <.0001, p <.0001, p <.0001), and reported weaker intentions of having sexual intercourse over the next three months (F (1, 144) = 7.58) than did those in the control group.