Can certain foods help you quit smoking?
The Duke University Center for Nicotine and Smoking Research recently came up with some interesting findings about how foods affect the enjoyment of tobacco products. Turns out that the association between drinking and smoking (as in "I only smoke when I'm having a few drinks") isn't just a cultural or social phenomenon. Alcohol and certain other foods, like red meat, actually make tobacco taste better. And apparently, vegetables and dairy products make tobacco taste horrible.
MedicineNet may have been somewhat tongue in cheek when they titled their article on the research "Quit-Smoking Diet" but it does make you wonder whether would-be quitters could use this to their advantage. Of course, drinking less alcohol and eating more vegetables probably wouldn't lessen your cravings for nicotine, it might just lessen your enjoyment of cigarettes. But we've all seen smokers huddling outside in miserable weather in order to have a smoke, so I'm not sure that making smoking less pleasurable is enough to break the habit.
If you've quit or tried to quit smoking, I'd be interested to know whether you felt that diet and nutrition was a factor. Did eating healthier make it easier? Did you use find yourself using food (especially sweets or fatty foods) as a replacement?
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Posted by: smoke deter | Mar 11, 2009 12:01:33 AM
i am not sure about the foods and diets..
i was a smoker, the thing which helped me was my self confidence. i am a sports player.. and with smoking, i can never play actively. this was troublesome for me. just think that you were never a smoker. quit it, turn all your hard feelings in the one that you love most.. you'll win.. use some pills if it helps you
http://www.smokedeterpills.com/
Posted by: free online chat | Dec 27, 2008 7:21:31 PM
Every time you think it can’t get any bigger, the anti-smoking furvor reaches new heights.
Of course, if you think about the irony - one of the top manufacture of chemical pesticides, which are used on the tobacco and thereby make them more toxic, is going to ensure that the people in his company quit smoking… so they don’t buy cigarettes anymore… which will reduce the amount of crops… which means less pesticide… which in turn will affect the companies bottom line.
I think that’s what’s called a ‘big picture’ analysis of the situation.
Posted by: Jim | Oct 14, 2007 1:32:08 PM
Smoking increases the speed that you metabolize caffiene, so when you quit smoking you'll want to cut back on caffiene too, or end up with coffee jitters on top of the nic fits. I found a clove on the lips helped cut through the nic fits too.
