Weekend Quotes

The report's authors "estimate that in order to provide services to these medically disenfranchised Americans, as well as current patients, health centers will need up to 60,000 more primary-care professionals, and up to 44,500 additional nurses."

-National Association of Community Health Centers (article link)

If pure thought is a body, it is our emotions that supply the heart that can really bring it to life. Our thoughts and feelings exist in relation to one another, and they form a feedback loop through which they communicate and empower each other.

-Daily Om: Undistracted Energy

“Redefining smoking not as a behavioral habit but as a pharmacological addiction may sound like good public policy, but it works against the public health when it reaches people that it is impossible to quit. Indeed, instead of having the intended effect of steering potential smokers – that is, children – away from cigarettes, demonizing cigarettes via nicotine reinforced smokers’ feelings of pharmacological enslavement and undermined their will to quit.

The tobacco habit should be characterized as an habituation rather than an addiction…”

-Smoking, A Behavioral Analysis, published in 1971