Cayenne pepper is a vital ingredient you can use to stop smoking. It has numerous benefits like preventing lung cancer, weight loss and so many others. Read this for more on how to quit smoking with cayenne pepper.

1. How Cayenne Pepper Helps Quit
Smoking
By
http://2stopsmokingtips.com

2. Introduction
• If you read my article on natural remedies to
quit smoking, you’ll recall that I mentioned
cayenne pepper but it was a brief mention.
My recent research has revealed that cayenne
pepper is hugely beneficial to smoking
cessation. I publish my findings below:

3. What Is Cayenne Pepper?
• You can call it red hot, long and spicy peppers
used by cooks to add colour and flavour to their
servings but Wikipedia gives its’ other names as
“guinea spice, cow-horn pepper, aleva, bird
pepper, or, especially in its powdered form, red
pepper.” It agrees it’s a hot chili pepper used to
flavour dishes. From this, we can safely say,
cayenne peppers are used for both food and
medicinal purposes. In this article however, I
want to examine cayenne pepper as a quit
smoking supplement and detoxification agent.

4. What Makes Cayenne Pepper Hot?
• Most peppers have a special ingredient called
capsaicin; it gives peppers their heat. The
hotter the pepper the more capsaicin it
contains. Cayenne also has a large
concentration of vitamins E and vitamin C.
These are vital to rebuilding the body after
smoking cessation.

5. Benefits of Cayenne Pepper to Quit
Smoking
• Prevents Lung Cancer
• This is a major benefit as ex and even present
smokers stand at huge risk of contracting lung
cancer. An antibacterial agent, cayenne
pepper has been established to prevent Lung
Cancer. A book titled “Prescription for Herbal
Healing” by Phyllis A. Balch published this
evidence.

6. Prevents Lung Cancer(2)
• According to the book, “scientists at Loma Linda
University in California have found a link between
the consumption of hot peppers and the
prevention of lung cancer in smokers. Tobacco
contains a substance known by the abbreviation
NNK that is an important factor in the promotion
of lung cancer in smokers. Animal studies have
shown that the capsaicin in cayenne peppers
stops the activation of NNK and inhibits the
tobacco-induced formation of lung tumours. To a
lesser extent, capsaicin also protects against the
tobacco-induced formation of liver tumours.”

7. Helps Raise the Mood
• Just like nicotine excites the brain and raises
the mood of smokers, a book titled “500
Health Tips” by Gareth Zeal and Hazel
Courteney states that “hot spicy foods that
include cayenne pepper produce endorphins
that help raise mood.” This means smokers
can get the same effect nicotine gives them by
consuming foods that include cayenne pepper.
With this, they’re able to avoid a relapse by
overcoming nicotine cravings.

8. Helps to Beat Nicotine Cravings
• Among many other health benefits, cayenne
pepper is said to bring down nicotine cravings.
It allegedly does this by making the respiratory
system less senstive to tobacco and chemical
irritants (this reduces nicotine cravings to a
large extent).

9. Assists Weight Loss and Curbs the
Appetite
• Most smokers find that they eat above their
normal ration while trying to quit. This happens
because of what I’ve decided to call ‘comfort
eating.’ They’re trying to comfort themselves with
food (an oral therapy – in the same mould as
smoking). Due to this, many ex-smokers gain
weight while trying to quit but a research
conducted at the Laval University in Quebec
noted that participants who took cayenne pepper
for breakfast had a reduced appetite (and could
not eat much throughout the day).

10. Assists Weight Loss and Curbs the
Appetite(2)
• This meant fewer calories but even in cases
where smokers gained weight, Cayenne was also
found to assist the body in burning excess fat.
This it does by boosting the metabolism system
to perform efficiently.
• Another study, led by researcher Richard Mattes,
PhD, RD, distinguished professor of foods and
nutrition at Purdue University in West Lafayette,
Ind., supports this body of evidence.

11. Assists Weight Loss and Curbs the
Appetite(3)
• The research which is published in
“Physiology & Behavior” concludes that
cayenne pepper may help burn calories and
reduce appetite, particularly in people who
are not used to consuming it. The study
discovered that eating food mixed with 1/2
teaspoon of cayenne pepper resulted in young
adults burning close to 10 more calories over
a space of four hours. It’s not the same when
they ate the same meal without the red
pepper.

12. Aids the Detoxification Process
• By nature, cayenne pepper stimulates
perspiration and the detoxification process. It
helps the body excrete the nicotine and other
poisons that have built up due to smoking over
the years. According to “Prescription for Herbal
Healing”, “cayenne is a digestive aid. It stimulates
the production of gastric juices, aids metabolism,
and relieves gas.” All I can say is, a good digestion
system will process food and other consumables
promptly and convert the useful ones into the
nutrients the body needs and excrete the useless
or harmful ones.

13. How Do I Use Cayenne Pepper to Stop
Smoking?
• Cayenne pepper comes in various forms: fresh
pepper, ground pepper powder, capsule, tea
form, etc. One thing experts agree on is that
taking cayenne daily is hugely beneficial to
quit smoking. They say adding a couple of
pinches to your glass of water can be
beneficial in more ways than one.

14. How Do I Use Cayenne Pepper to Stop
Smoking?(2)
• They also talk about drinking a mixture of warm water
and ¼ teaspoon of cayenne pepper. They say it is
wonderful for the heart and an expectorant for the
lungs. Even though it can make you cough (because of
its detoxification qualities), it’s advisable to slowly
drink this mixture few days after dropping off
cigarettes. It can really sustain your health in the long
term.
• There is a caveat though: don’t use cayenne pepper in
any form if you have any sign of stomach ulcers or
acidity. Or let me just say, consult your doctor before
using cayenne pepper!

15. Thanks For Reading!!!
• I really appreciate you for coming this far. But,
I’d like to invite you to watch a short video on
the cayenne pepper diet @
• http://2stopsmokingtips.com/2013/02/benefi
ts-of-cayenne-pepper/
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