Can Herbs Help You Quit Smoking?

A look at research, a user's experience quitting smoking with herbs, empirical evidence, and traditional phytotherapy from the past - all connected to one "spicy" herb.

My curiosity (and findings) about botanical therapy for smoking cessation, weirdly, started with a brisk jog— and while eating what I will now fondly remember as the best bowl of homemade soup I’ve ever had in my life.

Before I get into that (and long before I tasted this perfect bowl of herbalist-inspired soup) I questioned that herbs help smoking cessation at all. Can herbs help you quit smoking? Really? Even as an herbalist and phytotherapy researcher / writer of about a decade, I’d been skeptical about such claims.