While new in America, it's been ordinary in Vietnam for no less than a couple of decades, which is the place acupuncturist and Billy55 originator Ranko Tutulugdzija discovered it.
As an acupuncturist, Tutulugdzija said he had loads of patients attempting to locate a characteristic approach to stop smoking, and he recalled seeing green tea cigarettes – moved green tea leaves with no nicotine in them.
"Get the smoker to have the same sensation as smoking," Tutulugdzija read a clock. "They don't feel as remorseful and they have more inspiration to stop."
The cigarettes, named after Tutulugdzija's mom Biljana – alluded to as "Billy" – come in general and menthol mixed bags and are made out of tea starting from Nanjing and Beijing in China. They cost $2.50 per pack.
Green tea cigarettes are a piece of a three-stage, 90-day smoking discontinuance system created by Tutulugdzija. It's an "all-characteristic" program that incorporates taping five mustard seeds onto pressure point massage focuses that Tutulugdzija says can help you quit.
Taking after the system, Tutulugdzija says, will in the long run "minimize" the dependence on a propensity.
"Propensities are much simpler to break than habit," he says.
"In the event that you smoke green tea, you don't have a substance [nicotine] chipping away at your neuroreceptors to bring about dependence. There's a major distinction between something with nicotine and something without it."
Tutulugdzija says it has been just two months since his organization started testing the viability of the item for slackers, yet that "we're getting positive input."
With respect to empowerment of his item, Tutulugdzija says, "There's no such thing as "sound" smoking."
Two social smokers at TIME attempted the menthol and plain assortments of green-tea cigarettes, which were harder to light than typical cigarettes. The two analyzers perceived no flavor, however the breathed in smoke did make the analyzers feel woozy.
The menthol sort was somewhat minty, yet it, as well, did not have any normal, perceivable green tea or home grown flavor. Tutulugdzija depicts the flavor along these lines: "They don't suggest a flavor like a cigarette, yet there's a green tea fragrance."
Dr. Michael Steinberg, who heads the Rutgers Reliance Project, says this present: "It's presumably not the most secure approach to attempt to stop smoking and there's no solid logical confirmation it serves to stop."
Steinberg recognizes that green tea cigarettes may address a behavioral part that makes stopping smoking testing, yet thinks the oral obsession is in an ideal situation took care of with toothpicks, cinnamon sticks, or something else that doesn't discharge smoke.
Richardson echoes Steinberg's distrust. "I wouldn't have anybody I think about smoking green tea cigarettes to stop," she said.
