Re: Arnica helps a Chronic Smoker to QUIT From Traci_London on 2006-01-23
Dear Joe

That is great news.

For a heavy smoker (50 per/day over 35-years), what potency, how often, and period of time do you suggest taking Arnica.

Patient also addicted to coffee and gambling. Male. 53-years of age. Sporadic back-pain and rhuematic arthritis.

Re: Arnica helps a Chronic Smoker to QUIT From Joe De Livera on 2006-01-23
To: Traci

Arnica 30c in the liquid dose taken twice daily has helped the last patient whose story I carried above.

The other patients to whom I gave this remedy have all confirmed that about 3 days after starting the therapy, they discovered that they seemed to lack the craving for the next smoke. Eventually they seemed to overcome the demand from their body to smoke and I believe that the Arnica 30c helps them by increasing their sleep pattern by providing deep restful sleep which in turn rebuids the body and reduces the craving for a smoke.

I would recommend that you too use this simple remedy which is now being used by many not connected with smoking but who use it as a tonic daily as I also have done for the last 10 years, and we can all confirm that it is an amazing remedy that has done us a lot of good.

The liquid dose is made up as follows:

Get a 500ml bottle of spring water
Pour out 100ml or about an inch of water to ensure some air space on top.
Put in 3 globules Arnica 30c or 1 drop if you have the liquid remedy.
Hit the bottle hard on your palm or a cushion and watch for the water to fizzle like when you open a bottle of soda.
You may also shake the bottle hard to achieve the bubbles before every dose.

Sip a teaspoonful thrice daily with the last dose taken just before sleep. You will discover that you will sleep very deeply after the Arnica.

I wish you all success in quitting your smoking habit.

I note that you are addicted to coffee. Coffee antidotes all homeopathic remedies and you must stop it if you wish to quit smoking. I hope that Arnica can also help you to overcome your gambling habit and this is possible as it seems to help the mind to overcome that vacuum that may be the real cause of your habits.

You have also mentioned that you have a sporadic back pain and this too may be helped by the Arnica. As for the Rhuematic arthritis please make quite certain that you have the Rheumatoid Arthritis and not the Osteo type as the treatment for the former is complicated whilst the latter is cureable.

You will obviously have to do your bit to help yourself with the Arnica taken twice daily as instructed. I feel that the effort will be well worth your while.

Please post response weekly.

Re: Arnica helps a Chronic Smoker to QUIT From Will88 on 2006-01-24
Traci London,

Let me add a few details that might help. From what has been said in the past, and what I experienced, one takes the Arnica for a period of time before attempting to quit. Because of what I already had on hand, then ordered and tried two different potencies, this is how I'd used Arnica in the wet dose before quitting:

Starting 10/31 - one week using Arnica 30x

Starting 11/7 - about three weeks using Arnica 6c.

Starting 11/30 - using Arnica 30c to present.

Stopped smoking 12/18, so I'd used some potency for almost seven weeks before quitting.

Of course, it makes sense for someone else to just start with 30c and quit after a few weeks useage.

Joe has written that smokers often just lose the desire to smoke. Not sure I lost the desire, but just picked a time to quit again and was surprised at how easy it was.

During the first 10 or so days, I also used a combination homeopathic smoking cessation remedy and an occasional piece of nicotine gum, but then dropped all that. But it was the easiest ever throughout, and I'd used those other aides in the past, also, and it wasn't easy at all.

I'd smoked about as long as you indicated above. Good luck.

to: will From Joe De Livera on 2006-01-24
Thank you for detailing your use of Arnica since last October.

My experience is that the 30c is the most effective of the potencies as it seems to help the brain of a chronic smoker to reduce its craving for that next smoke.

I do believe that it is up to the smoker to make up his mind that he must quit smoking as this is perhaps 50% of the battle and with a bit of luck the demand for a smoke will soon be forgotten. Exercise will also help to increase the capacity of the lungs and help the body to recover.

It is important to maintain the dosage of 1 tsp Arnica 30 twice daily for life and I can assure you that it is quite safe to do so as I have taken Arnica nightly for the last 10 years and my BP is 120/80 pulse 65 age 76.

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Joe De Livera
Colombo
Sri Lanka