Initial disclaimer: I am not a doctor or other medical professional. I do not even play one on TV.
I'm reading a book about giving up addictions naturally (though I'm also now wearing a patch, which might not be totally natural, but I need all the help I can get). Here are some foods it lists that can be calming and that might help with nicotine addiction.
-- Oats/Oatmeal
-- Yogurt
-- Sunflower seeds (if they're unshelled, you have the additional hand-mouth benefit of shelling them to eat them)
-- Ginger (helps clear the lungs -- you can buy candied ginger and rinse off the sugar or leave it on)
-- Alkalinizing foods -- A body that is more acidic is more likely to crave cigarettes. Eat alkalinizig foods like apples, almonds, beet greens, berries, carrots, celery, figs, lima beans, onions, peas, raisins, and spinach.
-- High-chlorophyll vegetables -- collards and kale (and I bet other dark green leafy vegetables, too -- spinach and other greens)
-- Foods rich in beta carotene -- carrots, winter squash, blueberries help to decrease the chance of lung cancer
-- High-sulfur foods -- broccoli, cabbage
-- High-fiber foods -- we all know why you need these, now don't we?
-- Fresh vegetable juice
Vitamins that might help:
Vitamin C
Vitamin A
Calcium-magnesium (in combination)
B-complex vitamins
Zinc
Vitamin E
Selenium
Tyrosine
GABA
L-cysteine
I'm sure a good multi-vitamin would have most or all of these, and taking one every day is probably something we should all be doing.
Again, I'm not a health professional of any kind. Use your common sense.
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