Obama using nicotine replacement therapy

THE HILL ^ | 02/28/10 11:54 AM ET | Jordan Fabian

[onyx]

President Barack Obama is using nicotine replacement therapy to help himself quit smoking, according to the results of his physical exam released Sunday.

Navy Capt. Dr. Jeff Kuhlman examined Obama at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland Sunday morning and recommended that the president "continue smoking cessation efforts."

Obama's opponents and some in the press raised his cigarette smoking as an issue on the campaign trail. Last June, Obama called himself a "former smoker" who occasionally "slips up" and has a cigarette, but never in front of his family.

Otherwise, Kuhlman noted that Obama is in "excellent" health and is "fit for duty" and is expected to remain that way for the duration of his presidency.

[onyx]

KOOL

[Army Air Corps]

What is the replacement? Cannabis Sativa?

[TaxPayer2000]

LUCKY STRIKE

[Thinkin]

“President Barack Obama is using nicotine replacement therapy to help himself quit smoking, according to the results of his physical exam released Sunday.”

BS... LOL

I’ve played this game.....ya slap on a patch for the exam, then claim you are in “rehab”......
It doesn’t fool anyone.........

[Da Coyote]

Brain replacement therapy to follow.

[blackbart.223]

"President Barack Obama is using nicotine replacement therapy to help himself quit smoking, according to the results of his physical exam released Sunday."

The champion of health care. I really don't care if he smokes or not. I just don't care what he thinks.

[sodpoodle]

WE want some nincompoop replacement therapy;)

[TornadoAlley3]

[savedbygrace]

If Obama is using nicotine replacement, then he’s been smoking more than a couple of cigarettes a day.

[LiberConservative]

There is only one thing I can relate to with Barrie: the difficulty of quitting smoking. He has my full support and empathy. If I were trying to quit but found myself POTUS, screw quitting. I would be smoking until the end of my term.

[onyx]

I had to look that up LOL.

[KarlInOhio]

Every time he feels the urge to smoke, instead he crushes some freedom in America.

[onyx]

Yeah, I agree, he’s smoking more than a couple of cigs every day.

No wonder he was rude during the 7 hour meeting at Blair House. Jonesing for a cig....lol.

[greyfoxx39]

When I saw the thread title, the first thing I thought of was Boogers??

[jakerobins]

I Don’t like Obama’s policies one bit....But I hope for the SAKE OF THE COUNTRY he can quit. Imagine he gets lung problems and is incapacitated.....JOE BIDEN would be the Commander in Chief!!! Even worse something happens to Joe Biden and Obama then QUEEN NANCY PELOSI...... (UGHHH PUKE)....I can’t bring myself to finish that thought..TOO HORRIBLE to IMAGINE!

[onyx]

Where is he sneaking that cig?

[onyx]

Yes!!!

[Kickass Conservative]

Does the President's Physical include a Psychology Exam?

I wonder if the Doctor was able to pry the State Run Media out of Obama’s a$$?

[rfp1234]

How about brain replacement therapy?

[Evil Slayer]

[savedbygrace]

Hey, cut that out, he doesn’t need any more excuses for being a jerk.

[Slump Tester]

Maybe he’ll get jonesing so bad he smokes mass quanities while he’s wearing a few patches.

[4Speed]

Nicotine rewires the Brain, and when you try and Quit, clarity of thinking is modified, Impacted.
Nicotine affects the Synaps or something, I don’t know the particulars of the Science of the Brain/Nicotine.
I have heard from smokers who were quiting that this is true, as well as Scientific studies saying quitting affects your clarity of “thinking” and abilities for a few months while your body re-adapts, including your Brain.

[swain_forkbeard]

“I would be smoking until the end of my term.”

And so he will be.

Hey prez, come clean. What is it? Half a pack a day?

[roving]

Did the patch, pills, gum, hypnosis. Longest I quit was a full yr and it was a crave every day. I went to a e-cig. Closest thing to a real cig without all the poisons.

Didn’t a Senator give Obama a e-cig last year?

[Evil Slayer]

Obama using his new replacement therapy...

[Mr Ramsbotham]

See my tagline.

[stormer]

You are a moron.

[Diggity]

He looked hungover and like he needed a smoke at the begining of that HC deal.

[Enchante]

drug addict!

send in the anti-tobacco Nazis to tie him up while he goes through withdrawal

[never smoked here, just tired of whiny liberal hypocrites]

[onyx]

LOL. I know it. :)

[spectre]

Agree.

OTOH, Barry is likely using Nicorette as a substitute for "smoking" the real deal when he can't light up.

[Dewey Revoltnow]

Yes, but Biden is just stupid, whereas Hussein is pure evil. We can handle stupidity (see Carter), but evil is devastating to the country.

[onyx]

The exam lasted 90 minutes. Not nearly enough time for a shrink to exam him.

[HiTech RedNeck]

How hard can reading a teleprompter be?

[onyx]

I think I heard on the news that he has a nicotene mouth spray. Maybe it comes in nice wussy flavors.

[onyx]

Are you back to smoking now?

[manonCANAL]

I’m sorry LOL
not

[mikrofon]

Can America undergo President replacement therapy?

[onyx]

Someone needs to give him that therapy!!

[onyx]

Yes, drug addict! LOL.

[onyx]

Yes, but not nearly soon enough.

[combat_boots]

I think he smoked one too many.....

[mikrofon]

[REDWOOD99]

Dude! Really?

[onyx]

Duly noted!

[Harrius Magnus]

Try to be classy with what you write.

[manonCANAL]

I am 71 years old and if healthcare passes, and I need medical help, I will not receive it. So why should I care if he has cancer? Just saying.

[gnickgnack2]

Then apparently we have a new definition for “slips up.” I wouldn’t conclude a slip-up to happen regularly twice a day.