13. Herbs that Can Help Smokers
Some herbs are particularly helpful when you are quitting smoking. These herbs can help you with different aspects or symptoms of stopping smoking.
While some herbs promote cleansing activity and stimulate the body to get rid of nicotine, menthol and other constituents of tobacco faster and more effectively, other herbs relieve different symptoms of nicotine withdrawal.
Therefore, with the intake of these herbs, you can avert or lessen the cravings and withdrawal symptoms associated with nicotine.
Here is a list of helpful herbs. Most are available from local health food stores or on-line herbal companies.
Burdock Root: This herb cleans up nicotine deposited in your body.
Echinacea: It helps to resist the cravings for nicotine.
Lobelia: This is one of the most important quit smoking herbs and a major ingredient of many herbal smoking cessation remedies. It has a depressant activity on the central and autonomic nervous system and is helpful against lung diseases such as asthma and bronchitis.
Ginseng: This herb can help you handle nicotine cravings. Ginseng can also help with the lack of concentration that most people experience soon after they quit cigarettes.
Where people have an oral fixation with tobacco, ginseng chew can prove to be great. Since ginseng is believed by many to have anticancer properties, use 46.