{"id":76847,"date":"2025-06-28T07:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76847"},"modified":"2025-06-28T07:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T07:02:21","slug":"stop-smoking-pills-heres-how-smoking-changes-the-brain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/28\/stop-smoking-pills-heres-how-smoking-changes-the-brain-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop smoking pills: Here\u2019s how smoking changes the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1tWG2o.img?w=534&amp;h=417&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Three face-shaped trees changing colour and losing leaves to represent brain ageing and loss of cognitive function (Alamy\/PA)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">NHS<\/a>\u00a0drug is set to help thousands of people give up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/smoking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">smoking<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/stop-smoking-pills-here-s-how-smoking-changes-the-brain\/ar-AA1tWnnE?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=ee0e9ddd8f7043088ce6fb8ab02ab01b&amp;ei=71\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A new\u00a0NHS\u00a0drug is set to help thousands of people give up\u00a0smoking.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/smoking.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76848,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76847\/revisions\/76848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}