There’s an endless line of products out there to help someone stop smoking. Drugs and chemical products line the drug store shelves, which is a testament to the popularity of quick and easy supplements. These products may be compelling, but what smokers sometimes miss out are natural ways of quitting smoking.

Here are some of the popular natural methods that one can take to combat the addiction.

Herbal Methods

St. John’s Wort is an herbal supplement that is an anti-depressant. However, the medical community is finding that this herb can do more than help depression. In fact, recent preliminary studies suggest that the herb can aide smokers in lessening cravings. This alternative treatment is getting fast attention for those who want to stop smoking.

St. John’s Wort works by increasing levels of dopamine in the brain–you can see why this is helpful for someone in depression. But smokers also lose dopamine levels after they quit. In fact, the loss may increase craving and even depression. This treatment will work effectively right when someone quits smoking.

With St. John’s Wort, the former smoker can now find a way to naturally combat the cravings in pill or powder form.

Hypnotherapy

One of the problems of smoking cessation programs is that they often don’t deal with the addiction problem. Some programs focus on providing you with a replacement to the effects of nicotine, such as the nicotine patch. It’s no wonder that some smokers don’t find a way to psychologically eliminate their cravings.

Hypnotherapy provides a psychological approach to combat smoking addictions. The process centers on suggesting the subconscious mind to not submit to nicotine addiction. By relaxing the hypnotherapy patient to an alternate state, the therapist has a gateway to instill a message to stay away from cigarettes and avoid any psychological dependencies. Most commonly, the hypnotherapy patient relaxes on a comfortable chair or sofa so that he or she could relax the mind. Sometimes music is added to help the patient to fall deeper to the subconscious mind.

Cold Turkey

“Cold Turkey” is possibly the most well known natural way of quitting smoking. The procedure is quite straightforward since it involves quitting without any aid or help from other products. If you have a strong will power, cold turkey can be a good way to naturally stop the addiction.

Unfortunately, this method may be the toughest since there’s no gradual reduction in smoking, just an abrupt cessation of smoking. Smokers are challenged to resist without any help from drugs or psychological means. By doing so, there are ways to avert your cravings and withdrawal effects. Drinking plenty of water helps your body to release some harmful smoking remnants. In the first few days the withdrawals are the worst primarily due to toxins remaining in the system. It’s best to use every method available to combat the harsh effects of the first few days.

When one get cravings, a person can find substitutes to smoking such as drinking juice, or averting your attention to something else. Sometimes being extremely busy might make it impossible to find the time to smoke. These applications will all depend on one’s will to stop smoking.

There are many more natural methods to stop smoking. These three mentioned are the most popular natural practices to cease the smoking habit. Natural ways to help someone to stop smoking may not be for everyone. But these methods give smokers more options to find ways to quit smoking.


Michael Russell
Your Independent Stop Smoking guide.

In this day and age, we all want a cure-all pill that will solve all of our woes. We want a stop smoking pill, a diet pill, a little blue sex pill, a heartburn pill an anti-stress pill and an anti-depression pill. Heck if you could make one pill that did all that, you would make Bill Gates look like a pauper! But what stop smoking medications are there available to us?

For the purposes of this article, I am only going to look at the stop smoking medications that have some merit about them and have actually been tested. The herbal, shaman, snake oil remedies and secret formulas are not getting a mention!

The first of the stop smoking medications I want to mention is the nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) approach to quitting smoking. This comes in main forms of 24-hour patch, 16-hour patch, chewing gum, lozenge, microtab, inhalator (a plastic nicotine only ‘cigarette’), or nasal spray. The idea is to use this source of nicotine as a replacement to keep your cravings for tobacco under control. The process does not wean smokers from nicotine (which in my opinion, is the only reason why people smoke).

Of the stop smoking medications I am reviewing, this has the least side effects and normally only leaves an unpleasant taste or sensation with the smoker. The nicotine is absorbed through the mucosal linings of the mouth and nose and can cause irritation because these parts of the body are not used to nicotine.

NRT is said to double the rate of success in quitting smoking when compared to people quitting using will power or going cold turkey. That success rate is between 3% and 5% so NRT has a long term success rate of around 6-10%. Not great odds! Of the stop smoking medications I am looking at here, this is by far the weakest medication.

The second of the stop smoking medications I want to mention is zyban, which is often known as wellbutrin or bupropion hydrochloride. Zyban was initially developed as an anti-depressant (which it is still used as) but during clinical trials, researchers found that smokers stopped without any intervention at a statistically improbable rate. In other words, one of the side effects of taking zyban was an increased likelihood of quitting smoking.

Zyban is an incredibly popular drug with over 21 million prescriptions in the US in 2006. The beneficial side effect of zyban helping people quit smoking is countered by the many negative side effects. In larger doses, zyban can cause seizures and there is little tolerance for alcohol too.

Because zyban interacts with a subjects brain chemistry, there is a need for doctors to assess a patients mental health very carefully before prescribing. There are also implications when prescribed with high blood pressure (prevalent in smokers!) and people with heart problems (again, prevalent in smokers!). Zyban was initially seen as the potential ‘cure-all’ pill but in truth, this is not the case.

Studies have shown zyban is about 15% effect when used in combination with NRT and stop smoking support groups.

Of the three stop smoking medications I am looking at, Chantix is the final and most promising of the three. Chantix is the trade name for varenicline which is also traded as Champix in the UK. But just because is is a promising stop smoking medication, it does not mean it is ‘the cure-all’.

Again, like zyban, chantix interferes with the brain chemistry of a smoker, although the exact mechanism as to how this happens is not known. It is thought the chantix blocks off the receptors in the brain where nicotine normally attaches. As a result, the normal smoke and reward cycle associated with smoking doesn’t work because the nicotine doesn’t get a chance to do what it normally does. As a result, the smoker finds that smoking does not have the benefits it once did so they are inclined to stop.

Pfizer, the manufacturer claims a 44% success rate but other studies have shown a much lower success rate in the order of 20%.

Of all the stop smoking medications out there, chantix is probably the most effective but all of these approaches lack one common requirement. When you quit smoking, no matter which of the stop smoking medications you use, if any, you need to get your mental attitude to smoking and tobacco sorted out. It is possible to stop smoking without any of the stop smoking medications available, as many millions of people do every year – why not try and be one of them.

As ever, if you want to stop smoking, never stop trying. Failing to achieve something only really happens when you stop trying to achieve it.


Pete Howells has written the EasyQuit System that works by giving smokers the instructions they need to follow to achieve their ambition to quit rather than just telling them smoking is bad for them. Please visit www.easyquitsystem.com to find out more about his incredible process for quitting smoking. Pete also blogs about quitting smoking at http://quit-smoking-motivator.blogspot.com

To some, it is hard to stop smoking without medication. The thought of trying to quit without using nicotine replacement therapy is frightening. But there are a few things you need to know before you purchase these products.

For starters, you should consult your doctor before you make any sudden changes in diet or exercise. You should definitely let her know that you plan to stop smoking and she will inform you of any problems you may face. She will know the pro’s and con’s of nicotine replacement products and will be able to help you decide what is best for you.?

To combat your addiction to nicotine you have to understand that there is two forms of the addiction that you will have to fight. The physical addiction and the mental addiction.?Each has its own problems and weaknesses. You just need to know how to fight them.

The physical addiction is easy to fight. Simply replacing cigarettes with a nicotine replacement product will usually make the physical addiction happy on its own. Some people will carry a pencil or pen in their hands since it has the same general shape. Others will chew on a straw to curb the need for something in your mouth. There are many more ways to fight the physical addiction, you will likely end up finding your own method to beat it.?

In order to stop smoking without medication you will have to face the mental addiction head on. This is where you will need an abundance of willpower to overcome your cravings. The mental addiction is responsible for the desires of the physical addiction as well, so ultimately your final battle will be here.


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