Guest guest Posted August 2, 2007 Report Share Posted August 2, 2007 This is totally unrelated to food, but since I found the board fairly inactive, here goes. I hope no one minds this sort of question. Have any vegetarians or vegans every smoked, and if so, does anyone know of an herbal remedy to aid in quitting? Blessings, Jack (Pampa, Texas) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 Sunflower seeds help. There is a chemical contained within that mimics the effects of nicotine (or so I've always heard). The trick is to keep your mouth busy so you don't smoke. I had good success with regular chewing gum. Ellen , " maxium62001 " <maxium62001 wrote: > > This is totally unrelated to food, but since I found the board fairly > inactive, here goes. I hope no one minds this sort of question. Have > any vegetarians or vegans every smoked, and if so, does anyone know of > an herbal remedy to aid in quitting? > Blessings, Jack (Pampa, Texas) > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2007 Report Share Posted August 3, 2007 I never smoked but my dad did. When he quit back in the 1960's cinnamon toothpicks were popular with us kids. He'd chew on them or on Juicy Fruit gum when he craved a cigarette. Thinking about the toothpicks prompted me to do a websearch and I found a site if you're interested. http://www.oryans.com/flavpixcinto.html bev g , " sweetcatkins " <sweetcatkins wrote: > > Sunflower seeds help. There is a chemical contained within that > mimics the effects of nicotine (or so I've always heard). The trick > is to keep your mouth busy so you don't smoke. I had good success > with regular chewing gum. > > Ellen > > , " maxium62001 " > <maxium62001@> wrote: > > > > This is totally unrelated to food, but since I found the board > fairly > > inactive, here goes. I hope no one minds this sort of question. Have > > any vegetarians or vegans every smoked, and if so, does anyone know > of > > an herbal remedy to aid in quitting? > > Blessings, Jack (Pampa, Texas) > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 4, 2007 Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 I did not use any herbs. I had a heavy psychological addiction to smoking as well as physical. And I really did not want to quit.. but did not want to die either. I chewed the nicorette or generic equivalent to it for about 9 months. My Dh did too.. we quit together when he was diagnoses at age 25 with beginning jaw cancer from chewing tobacco. So neither of us really " wanted " to quit. But felt like we had to. That was about 10 yrs ago. I fell off the wagon once during severe stress. I call that rather successful. Apparently at that early stage mouth cancer of the tobacco user can be reversed by stopping. They gave him 6 months to see if it went away.. and it did. I chewed it for so long to first break the psycho habits, lighting up at each stop light, if I drank a beer, certain songs on the radio ( to this day there are certain songs that I associate with smoking that I can not listen or it will induce a craving) After a couple months it was just to work on the physical craving. So watch out for those lighting up cues.. and make sure you have some gum or a tooth pic or whatever. Cinnamon and mints helped off the gum. After the third day you will be fine. I know this might not be a popular thing nor the most healthy.. but it still beats smoking. Its hard, but you can do it. B vitamins help too though. Steph " We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. " C.S. Lewis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 4, 2007 Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 OH yeah I forgot.. I had been smoking since age 11. When I quit at 25 I had been smoking more than half my life. And I was a super heavy smoker too. 2 - 4 packs a day when I quit. May be why I had such a hard time quitting. Also.. if you're a heavy smoker. Be prepared to cough up a lung the second week. Literally. You will likely cough up al lot of stuff that you would look at and not sure if its compatible with life. That made a profound impact on me. I coughed up black flakes with phlegm- and all sorts of gray crud. And it had texture to it too. I thought " great. Now I quit and I am going to die " I called the doc and found that was normal. No one had told me that. Not even the prep book that came with the gum. I heard from a friend that the book now warns people to expect that as a sign of healing. I also smoked in my sleep for a while. Not a pleasurable dream like I missed it though.. it was like those dreams of falling and you jolt awake. I would dream that I have fallen asleep with a lit cigarette in my fingers - which startles me to wake cause I don't want to burn myself up. Steph " We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. " C.S. Lewis RnScarlson [scarlson1] Saturday, August 04, 2007 4:15 PM ' ' Re: Open Board & Question I did not use any herbs. I had a heavy psychological addiction to smoking as well as physical. And I really did not want to quit.. but did not want to die either. I chewed the nicorette or generic equivalent to it for about 9 months. My Dh did too.. we quit together when he was diagnoses at age 25 with beginning jaw cancer from chewing tobacco. So neither of us really " wanted " to quit. But felt like we had to. That was about 10 yrs ago. I fell off the wagon once during severe stress. I call that rather successful. Apparently at that early stage mouth cancer of the tobacco user can be reversed by stopping. They gave him 6 months to see if it went away.. and it did. I chewed it for so long to first break the psycho habits, lighting up at each stop light, if I drank a beer, certain songs on the radio ( to this day there are certain songs that I associate with smoking that I can not listen or it will induce a craving) After a couple months it was just to work on the physical craving. So watch out for those lighting up cues.. and make sure you have some gum or a tooth pic or whatever. Cinnamon and mints helped off the gum. After the third day you will be fine. I know this might not be a popular thing nor the most healthy.. but it still beats smoking. Its hard, but you can do it. B vitamins help too though. Steph " We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. " C.S. Lewis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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