Nicocure Stop Smoking patches provide a revolutionary and natural way to assist smokers to quit smoking, without the intake of nicotine.

The patches contain extract of Lobelia Inflata, a North American Indian herb that has long been associated with improving the respiratory tract. The plant extract acts as an expectorant for the lungs, which may help to clear your lungs more quickly. One of the main advantages of this ingredient is its ability to make tobacco products taste unpleasant, which should help to reduce cravings for cigarettes.

This year, 500,000 people will die from cancer. Learn about an herb, lobelia inflata, that can help people stop smoking - after the "patch", "gums" and all willpower have failed.

Lobelia is one of the great lifesavers, and it can cause people who have tried and failed, and failed again, to quit smoking for good.

* From Merriam Webster's Medical Dictionary: lobeline (noun) : a crystalline alkaloid C22H27NO2 that is obtained from Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) and is used chiefly as a respiratory stimulant and as a smoking deterrent.

* To combat the effects of nicotine withdrawal, Michael Murray, N.D., of Bastyr College recommends lobelia due to its similar actions to nicotine but with a longer duration of action. He recommends lobelia as a suitable alternative to nicotine chewing gum or the nicotine patch.

Lobelia inflata Fact Sheet

Campanulaceae

Common name: Indian tobacco.

Habitat: Eastern USA, cultivated elsewhere.

Part used: Aerial parts.

Collection: The entire plant above ground should be collected at the end of the flowering time, between August and September. The seed pods should be collected as well.

Constituents:

Piperidine alkaloids, mainly lobeline, withlobelanidine, lobelanine, and minor amounts of norlobelanine(=isolobelanine), lelobanidine, lovinine, isolobinine, lobinanidine andothers Chelidonic acid.

Actions: Anti-asthmatic, anti-spasmodic, expectorant, emetic, nervine.

Indications: Lobelia is one of the most useful systemic relaxants available to us. It has a general depressant action on the central and autonomic nervous system and on neuro-muscular action. It may be used in many conditions in combination with other herbs to further their effectiveness if relaxation is needed. Its primary specific use is in bronchitic asthma and bronchitis. An analysis of the action of the alkaloids present reveal apparently paradoxical effects. Lobeline is a powerful respiratory stimulant, whilst isolobelanine is an emetic and respiratory relaxant, which will stimulate catarrhal secretion and expectoration whilst relaxing the muscles of the respiratory system. The overall action is a truly holistic combination of stimulation and relaxation!

Priest & Priest tell us that it is a "general systemic relaxant with diffusive stimulation - best where arterial action is strong. Equalizes circulation and relieves vascular tension. Vaso-motor stimulant -increases the activity of vegetative processes. Influences glandular system and respiratory tubuli. Contra-indicated in nervous prostration, shock and paralysis. Of brief continuance in asthenic conditions." They give the following specific indications: Dislocations, trauma and hernias. Spasmodic and membranous coup, pertussis, bronchial asthma, bronchitis and pleurisy. Hepatitis, jaundice, nausea and hepatic congestion. High blood pressure, intestinal obstruction and neurasthenia.

Ellingwood considered it specific for "irritable, spasmodic and oppressed breathing, and in respiratory from exalted nerve force and nerve irritation. It is contra-indicated in general relaxation and in dyspnoea from enlarged or fatty heart, or from hydropericardium, or enfeebled heart, with valvular incompetence. It is specific in threatened spasm with exalted nerve action - a high degree of nerve tension with great restlessness and excitability, flushed face and contracted pupils. It is a prompt emetic in full doses." The high regard that the eclectics held Lobelia in is reflected by his recommendation for the following pathologies: spasmodic asthma, whooping cough, spasmodic croup, membranous croup, infantile convulsions, puerperal eclampsia, epilepsy, tetanus, hysterical paroxysms, hysterical convulsions, rigid os uteri, diptheria, tonsillitis, pneumonia.

Place one Nicocure patch on a relatively hair free part of the body (the inner arm is perfect). After 24 hours remove and replace with a new patch in a slightly different position to allow the skin to breathe. If there is any residue of adhesive left on the skin, wash off with warm soapy water.

When stopping smoking, it is advisable to eat fresh citrus fruit and drink plenty of clear water whenever tobacco cravings occur.