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He has not smoked in nearly a year and a half.

"This time I had no cravings, gained no weight and had no mood swings," Eaton said. "Previously, I noticed I'd become very angry and irritable when I tried to quit and had problems sleeping, but none of that occurred this time. In fact, I lost a little weight, much to my pleasure."

Tom Benedict, 47, of Ponte Vedra Beach also quit successfully by taking a combination of nicotine gum and buproprion for smoking cessation. Before he sought treatment at UF, he had tried to quit seven times in the past 25 years.

"It made a big change in me," Benedict said. "Physically, I rollerblade and walk a lot more, do activities around the house and garden. It's night and day in terms of how I feel -- I just feel so much better."

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23-Apr-1998