Sentences with phrase «week of abstinence»

This study supports the importance of waiting for at least a week of abstinence before establishing a diagnosis of depression.

All individuals were evaluated after at least a week of abstinence.

«And then what we may need is a medication for the first two weeks of abstinence, when you want to really decrease intense craving.

The process may explain why drug craving often increases over time in the first weeks of abstinence.

4 consecutive weeks of abstinence during 12 weeks of treatment and rates of abstinence at 4, 8, 12, and 26 weeks.

Not exact matches

While six weeks may seem like an agonizingly long time to the sex starved male, this period of post-delivery abstinence is generally a best - case scenario.

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.

Both groups of participants assigned at random to varenicline achieved significantly higher abstinence rates at 12 weeks than those assigned to placebo, nicotine patch or bupropion.

The primary measured outcome was carbon monoxide - confirmed self - reported 7 - day point - prevalence abstinence (the proportion of the study population abstinent at a specific point in time) at 26 weeks.

Among adults motivated to quit smoking, 12 weeks of treatment with a nicotine patch, the drug varenicline, or combination nicotine replacement therapy produced no significant differences in confirmed rates of smoking abstinence at 26 or 52 weeks, raising questions about the current relative effectiveness of intense smoking cessation pharmacotherapies, according to a study in the January 26 issue of JAMA.

Results showed no significant differences among these 3 pharmacotherapies in any of the 26 - or 52 - week abstinence measures,» the authors write.

Among adults motivated to quit smoking, 12 weeks of open - label treatment with nicotine patch, varenicline, or C - NRT produced no significant differences in biochemically confirmed rates of smoking abstinence at 26 or 52 weeks.

A more stringent criterion of prolonged abstinence, not smoking even one puff after the first week of quitting, was also used and showed similar results.

Short - term abstinence from ejaculation for 3 weeks can actually increase testosterone slightly (17), with a significant spike of 145 % in T at the 7th day (18).

The third annual drug policy, released last week by Bob Martinez, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, calls on schools and parents to promote abstinence from alcohol among minors.

Most school districts have comprehensive sexual education policies and curricula in place, according to two national surveys to be released this week, but sexuality education, and particularly the promotion of abstinence - only education, remain magnets for controversy.

Last week, Mumbai woke up to some startling news: the sale of meat would be banned for four days in the city out of respect for Paryushan Parva, a Jain festival marked by fasting and abstinence.

Washington, DC — Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) today criticized the Bush administration for misleading states about the certainty of Title V abstinence - only program funding in a new grant extension announced last week.