US Navy submariners may have to work on their New Years resolution a little harder this year if they’re smokers.  As of January 1st, the Navy will no longer allow smoking on submarines, as it announced earlier this year.  Submarines are typically out of port for months at a time, and the submariners lack some of the ‘chemical assistance’ other Sailors might have:

Although many Sailors rely on prescription medication to help them quit — Zyban and Chantix are two popular options — they aren’t available for submariners, because psychotropic drugs are forbidden for the 11,600 Sailors assigned to subs.

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