For Those Who Want To Quit Smoking
One way to curb smoking is to eat foods that are
high in alkaline (the opposite of acid). This may work by changing the preference of your taste buds. In India, boiled oats have been used for many years to treat opium addiction. A welcome side effect of this alkaline  treatment was that addicts often lost interest in cigarettes as well as opium. Other foods that may make  it easier for you to quit smoking by increasing your body alkalinity are spinach, beet greens, raisins, figs,
dried lima beans, dandelion greens, and almonds.
When a Chinese smoker wants to quit, he or she tries  this traditional remedy: Mix grated fresh radish with 2 tsps. of honey and drink it like juice.
Natives of the West Indies like to chew on licorice
sticks or on sugar cane stalks. Inspired by this, one  doctor recommended that his patients chew licorice  sticks to break the smoking habit. The idea has  apparently been very successful. Ex-smokers like having something to chew on or hold in their mouths. The  licorice stick is a safe substitute for a cigarette.
In the southeastern United States, particurally in
Appalachia, people who want to stop smoking chew on a birch branch to help curb the oral fixation related to the smoking habit.
Smoking began with the Indians. They smoked tobacco for ritual and spiritual purposes, not as an everyday habit. And because they added botanicals and flavored herbs to the tobacco in their pipes, they cut down on the  nicotine content. The more you add to tobacco, the less  nicotine it will have. Although you can buy herbal cigarettes in some natural food stores, here are a few
roll-your-own fillers for you to try: rosemary, (used in tobacco mixtures for centuries in England), beech tree leaves (smoked by Germans during WWI), corn silk, tonka beans, myrica gale (used by Norwegians), licorice, sage, or morjoram.
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This page was last updated on: November 12, 2004

Lick a little salt with the tip of your tongue whenever you feel the urge to smoke. This is said to break the habit within one month.
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did.  I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. 
~Mark Twain