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title: ""Carine McLaughlin was a smoker for 46 years and said she tried…"
date: 2020-08-20
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# "Carine McLaughlin was a smoker for 46 years and said she tried…

*August 20, 2020 · Facebook*

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[https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/psychedelic-drugs-lsd-active-agent-in-magic-mushrooms-to-treat-addiction-depression-anxiety-60-minutes-2020-08-16/](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/psychedelic-drugs-lsd-active-agent-in-magic-mushrooms-to-treat-addiction-depression-anxiety-60-minutes-2020-08-16/){target="_blank"}
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\"Carine McLaughlin was a smoker for 46 years and said she tried everything to quit before being given psilocybin at Johns Hopkins last year. Psilocybin itself is non-addictive.\
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Anderson Cooper: Do you remember what, like, specifically what you were seeing or?\
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Carine McLaughlin: Yes. The ceiling of this room were clouds, like, heavy rain clouds. And gradually they were lowering. And I thought I was gonna suffocate from the clouds.\
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That was more than a year ago; she says she hasn\'t smoked since. The study she took part in is still ongoing, but in an earlier, small study of just 15 long-term smokers, 80% had quit six months after taking psilocybin. That\'s double the rate of any over-the-counter smoking cessation product.\
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Roland Griffiths: They come to a profound shift of world view. And essentially, a shift in sense of self that I think\--\
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Anderson Cooper: They\-- they see their life in a different way? \"
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