How can herbal remedies help me to stop smoking?

How can herbal remedies help me to stop smoking?

Linda Hyder Ferry (Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: How can alternative medicine help me to quit smoking?; What alternative medicines and methods can help me stop smoking?; How can acupuncture help me to stop smoking? and more...

There are probably three, four, five prominent medications that are derived from herbal products, meaning plant products, that are used to help people stop smoking. Each of those products suggests that what's happening is it either helps to eliminate nicotine more rapidly from your system or it replaces nicotine with a chemical that's similar to that to help you feel calm. If you look at which product, which chemical herb, is actually in each one, sometimes you'll find that there's a little bit of nicotine in these products too, so I would encourage you to be a wise consumer. Read the label, ask questions about how it's supposed to be working, and remember that the problem with nicotine treatment is that you've got a brain chemistry problem, when nicotine levels drop your brain goes into withdrawal. Ask, "How are these products supposed to help me with withdrawal symptoms?"