Timothy Vermillion
@Dr_Vermillion
Iraq Veteran | Therapist | EMDR Specialist | Enhancing mental health with education, training, and harm reduction. Coaching for private practice improvement.
🇺🇸 Helping Veterans quit cigarettes? Try a step-down strategy: ➡️ Move from cigarettes to vapes, pouches, or NRT ➡️ Then use CBT or the EMDR Feeling State Protocol to break the craving loop for good. Harm reduction first. Healing next. #Veterans #EMDR #CBT #HarmReduction
New NEJM study: Systematic review on e-cigarettes for smoking cessation. ✔️ Switching fully to vaping reduces tobacco toxin exposure ✔️ Fewer harmful chemicals than cigarettes ⚠️ Not risk-free: long-term health effects uncertain #SmokingCessation #Vaping #PublicHealth #RXLately
Respectfully, this misses the mark. Tobacco use in veterans is often trauma-linked. A ban without safer alternatives—like vaping or pouches—risks punishing, not supporting. We need compassion, not just prohibition. #HarmReduction #Veterans @Vets4THR @SenatorCollins
Veterans are at significantly higher risk for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) — and it’s one of the most overlooked pieces of the trauma puzzle. If you’re waking up exhausted - it might not “just be PTSD.” OSA can amplify trauma symptoms and make recovery harder. At Paradise…
As a Veteran and trauma therapist, I know the quiet signs of PTSD can be the most dangerous… PTSD isn’t just about flashbacks. For many Veterans, it looks like irritability, emotional numbing, insomnia, or avoiding the people who care most. At Paradise Institute, we specialize…
Choices! And Freedom to Choose 🦅 In a move supporting tobacco harm reduction, the FDA has allowed Juul to remain on the market. #Veterans seeking alternatives from deadly combustible cigarettes have more choices. #tobaccoharmreduction @Vets4THR thehill.com/policy/healthc…
🚨🪖 Stop Soldier Suicide 🏅 Join a mission that matters. Fellow Veterans & social workers—this is what we do. Support however you can. Share & amplify. #veteransuicide #soldiersuicide #veterans 👉f.mtr.cool/lijoerptjp
NEW from Dr. Carl Phillips (@carlvphillips)! My new white paper, "Tobacco Harm Reduction: Policy And Practice" published by the Hispanic Leadership Fund carlvphillips.substack.com/p/my-new-white…
🧠 EMDR therapists—have you used the Feeling State Protocol? I’ve had success with it in cases of: ✔️ Cutting ✔️ Eating disorders ✔️ Porn addiction ✔️ Gambling ✔️ Smoking What have you used it for? 👇 #EMDR #TraumaTherapists #Addiction
Can’t wait to learn more from the Summit! I won’t be there in person but will definitely be following. #veterans #tobaccoharmreduction #vape
Registration & Abstract Submission is now open for the #NoSmokeSummit25. Find out the details and secure your participation in the Summit in Athens, on September 30th and October 1st, 2025 here: nosmokesummit.org
"EVALI" vs. "popcorn lung" are two different conditions. "EVALI" was caused, six years ago in the USA-only, by bootleg THC vapes. Not nicotine vapes. "Popcorn lung" is a 10 year old myth. Long debunked. The only "victims" you will find are on TikTok or clickbait media.
Just received my official @VFW membership 🇺🇸 Proud to stand with fellow Veterans—and ready to keep advocating for mental health access and tobacco harm reduction solutions that actually work. #Veterans #MentalHealth #tobaccoHarmReduction #VFW
👀EMDR Inquiry for Therapists: Does working-memory theory—where bilateral stimulation taxes WM to lessen a memory’s vividness—serve as your primary explanatory model? Or do you favor another framework? #EMDR #TraumaTherapist
What are your thoughts on this discussion of nicotine pouch use? Here’s a quote: “But it does not cause cancer since it doesn’t contain tobacco…” Another tool in Tobacco Harm Reduction. #Tobaccoharmreduction #Veterans @Vets4THR axios.com/2025/07/05/zyn…
🎖️🚒 Sleep Hygiene Tip: If sleep won’t come, step out of bed and do calm activity—flip through a service manual 📘 or do stretches 🤸♂️. Return when you feel drowsy to reinforce bed = sleep. #sleephygiene #veterans #firstresponders
Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸 Celebrate freedom by choosing smoke-free alternatives: e-cigs & nicotine pouches cut toxicant exposure by >90% vs. cigarettes. JAMA cohort data show daily vapers have higher quit rates than patch or gum users . #TobaccoHarmReduction #Veterans
Reuters just revealed how illegal vapes flood the U.S. When safer, regulated options are restricted, the black market wins—and veterans lose. Keep 95 % safer products legal, affordable & quality‑controlled. 🔗 usnews.com/news/world/art… #VeteransHealth #HarmReduction #SmokeFree…
