Herbal Sweet for Smoking Cessation

Abstract

Ninety - one of smokers from Thai Airways International Public Co.,Ltd., Bangkok International Airport were divided into 2 groups of 33 nicotine dependent smokers and 58 nicotine independent smokers. The nicotine dependent smokers were divided into 2 groups: Bimin 2 and placebo group. They were recruited for studying the efficacy, withdrawal symptoms and acceptability of new Bimin 2 for smoking cessation within 20 days. The nicotine independent smokers had different characteristics from nicotine dependent smokers such as education, the first smoking time after wake up in the morning, the frequency of smoking in the first hour after wake up and number of cigarettes per day. The volunteers in Bimin 2 group could stop smoking 45.5% and 77.8% in placebo group. In this study showed that Bimin 2 was not efficient for smoking cessation. The withdrawal symptoms were not serious effects and declined from the beginning to the end of treatment. Most of the volunteers accepted the programme of smoking cessation and were willing to advise to their friends.