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Mix And Match Stop Smoking Herbs! |
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Regardless of the method used to stop smoking, once the
stop-smoking treatment method is withdrawn, a variety of factors can
affect the individual so as to induce re-initiation of smoking.
Generally, if a person has stopped smoking for a full six months, the
chances of starting smoking again are very low. Therefore, six month
cessation rates, one year cessation rates, and two year cessation rates
are similar regardless of the method employed.
Short term smoking cessation success may depend on the extent to which
the intervention provides regular reinforcement of the stop-smoking
effort. A person left to his or her own is more likely to resume smoking
than a person who daily encounters someone who reinforces the stop
smoking attempt. Those who take up smoking in their teens and maintain
the habit for many years have more difficult time quitting smoking than
those who take up smoking later in life.
The “early-onset”
smoking addiction may correlate with genetic and behavioral patterns
that lead to addiction, while “late onset” smoking is more often a habit
of choice. About 80% of U.S. smokers begin their habit by age 18.
Nicotine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter and dopamine. The
nature of nicotine is that it creates a cycle of positive reinforcement
within your brain that makes you want more.
Scientists have found
that when you withdraw from chronic nicotine use, it results in changes
in these neural pleasure pathways. And the effect on the brain is
similar to what someone addicted to cocaine, opiates and other drugs
experiences. Hence, depression and anxiety are common.
The
herbalist Weiss theorizes that it is the sedative effect of oats. Oats
contain as active constituents the in dole alkaloid, gramine, and the
alkaloids avenine and trigonelline. Oats are described in herbal
medicine texts as helping create a feeling of well-being whilst
simultaneously acting as a tonic to the nervous system. But unlike
narcotics, these are mild, non-habit forming effects. The following
formula has been formulated for those trying to stop smoking. In a 50ml
bottle, mix the following herbal tinctures:
1) 15ml green oats
2) 10ml white horehound
3) 10ml mullein
4) 5ml golden seal
5) 10ml peppermint
Take 6 drops on the tongue whenever the craving to
have a cigarette is felt. Acupuncture is also an excellent support
option. HerbMed offers the following herbal option, to be used on
appropriate acupuncture points. Mix oil of cloves, oil of wintergreen,
an extract of evodia fruit, an extract of sichuan lovage rhizome, and
msg, and apply to specific acupuncture points.
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