Jonathan Avery, M.D., is the Vice Chair for Addiction Psychiatry, the Stephen P. Tobin and Dr. Arnold M. Cooper Professor in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, and the Program Director for the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital.  He is also the medical director for the NBA/NBPA's Anti-Drug Program.

Today on the show we discuss: why vaping was sold as “safer” but is actually fueling hidden addiction, how nicotine rewires your brain and makes quitting brutally hard, why most people fail six times before they finally quit, the alarming impact vaping has on kids and developing brains, the truth about the “disease model” of addiction and why personal agency matters, proven strategies to finally break free and rebuild your confidence, what parents can do if they catch their kids vaping, and much more.

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