What types of tea are useful when quitting smoking?

One of the things I found useful was to use a breathing exercise when I had the urge to smoke. The idea is the breathing exercise replicates some of the physical things you do when smoking (ie concentrate on inhaling, holding the smoke in and breathing out slowly etc) that it distracts you enough to overcome the urge to light up. In my experience that urge is incredibly strong but it does pass quite quickly if you resist it. The more you resist the urge the longer the gaps will be become between them.

I have been smoking for 50 years and have no plans of stopping. stupid? maybe.

Here is what helped my wife to quit: find a plastic straw, about the same diameter as a cigarette. cut the straw to the same length as your brand of cigarette. constantly hold the “plastic cigarette” in the same hand that you held your cigarette. carry the plastic cigarette everywhere you go. when you feel the urge, take a drag off the plastic cigarette and breathe deeply. this worked for her.

Quitting smoking is not only a physical addiction, its also a psychological addiction. you have to fool your mind and body. the hand to mouth routine, with the plastic cigarette, seems to help tremendously, according to my wife.

Good luck. john

Any tea you like. I think it will be more about occupying your hands than the tea in the cup. Be aware that you might be doubling up on your caffeine intake if you are going to drink more tea now. I really like @john65pennington idea. It’s funny, but I bet it helps. You’ll probably miss holding the cigarette. Although, in your plan you are holding the tea cup. Also, maybe get some nicotine gum, so you can get used not smoking, before your body has to deal with the physical withdrawal from the drug. You might find it easier to start over the weekend when you are less routinized. The workday usually has a typical pattern for most people and might be harder. My dad always quit while on vacation, he finally stayed quit abot 30 years ago, but it took several tries. Lastly, don’t go out with your smoking friends for a few weeks unless they agree to not smoke when you are with them.

@john65pennington so your wife is able to not smoke while you still smoke? That is amazing. My aunt looovvves smoking and doesn’t want to quit either.

I would try chamomile.Good luck :)

Drink all the tea you want. While you are at it, stop smoking.
“You know it is killing you. So what is the problem?”
My dad said that to me once, and I quit that day. FYI.

I would say don’t drink caffeinated tea, especially if you used to have a cigarette with tea as part of your day. A nice green tea, or something herbal you’ve never had before, would be a nice habit-changer. Once you’ve quit for a bit, you can try going back to the caffeine again.

I completely disagree with @Megan64. If you typically drink caffeine, do not change that while quitting nicotine. One withdrawal is enough. Cutting your caffeine will give you headaches and make you feel sleepy and generally under the weather. You are probably going to feel less alert already cutting out the nicotine. I would not oncrease caffeine either, so if you are drinking more tea than usual, then decaf as the additional tea makes sense. Green tea does have a small amount of caffeine naturally.

Tea…hmmm, its been a long time, since I had a good of tea to make me quit.
I have the answer, and it has to do with your sub-conscious.

Laser smoking cessation is a most useful natural quit smoking method.. A laser smoking cessation session costs about a hundred bucks for thirty minutes. It usually takes at least three sessions before a patient begins to feel the positive effects of the treatments, so it’s not cheap. Supposedly, the stress reducing qualities are usually felt after the first session.
Also, subliminal tapes or mps have been shown to have people slowly withdraw from smoking, but it usually takes at least 32 days of two-eight hours of listening per day to rewire the sub-conscious. Typically the script or messages are either masked, or silent which is convenient for listen while sleeping. However, your mp player would need to have attached speaker that have a frequency response of 20–20,000 hertz or megahertz, I forget. Either way a electronic store can answer and likely accommodate for around 25–50 bucks.
If none of those alternative seems appealing you can always switch over to snuff-just kidding. Good luck.

Further to the caffiene thing I’d like to point out that although dry tea and coffee have similar amounts of caffiene tea infusions are much lower in caffiene than filter coffee.

still smoking…but still working my way up to it!!!

Thank you everyone for your help. I think the hypnosis type of stuff is just far too expensive for me… I’m likely at this moment in time to use patches for a week and then go cold turkey… I’m,...like I say…working myself up to it :-/

Good luck.