Frequently Asked Questions:
What is Rid-tobak?
Rid-tobak is an all natural formulation of herbal extracts especially prepared after long research and testing. The formulation refreshes the mouth and
makes the taste of all forms of tobacco un-interesting or in some cases distasteful. The effect depends upon the individual user's mouth conditions.
Herbal extracts are derived from Withania Somnifera, Evolvolus Alsinoides, Centella Asiatica, Asparagus Adscendens, Ocimum Sanctum and
Avena Sativa.
Will Rid-tobak give me the same pleasure as tobacco?
No. But that is part of the 'habit-modification' process.
Is tobacco is to be continued along with Rid-tobak?
You may, but be sure to use Rid-tobak as directed at least three times a day.
Will Rid-tobak replace tobacco?
You may use tobacco while using Rid-tobak, but it will not be pleasurable as before. That is how Rid-tobak works. It helps you to lose interest in tobacco.
You may also find a calming effect, and that you lose the desire for the 'kick of tobacco.
Where did Rid-tobak come from?
Over the last ten years, Rid-tobak has been developed and tested in India, where the use of tobacco is endemic and attendant problems are very severe.
Smoking, chewing of raw tobacco and use of snuff are all popular. Indians havea high rate of mouth cancer, lung cancer, sub-mucous fibrosis and
leucoplakia. Rid-tobak in India has been used for ten years to wean tobacco users from smoking and chewing as part of various de-addiction programs.
Now that it has evolved to have a pleasant taste, a small volume and a long shelf life, it is being introduced around the world.
Where did Rid-tobak come from?
Over the last ten years, Rid-tobak has been developed and tested in India, where the use of tobacco is endemic and
attendant problems are very severe. Smoking, chewing of raw tobacco and use of snuff are all popular. Indians have
a high rate of mouth cancer, lung cancer, submucous fibrosis and leucoplakia. Rid-tobak in India has been used for ten
years to wean tobacco users from smoking and chewing as part of various de-addiction programs. Now that it has evolved
to have a pleasant taste, a small volume and a long shelf life, it is being introduced around the world.
How is Rid-tobak used?
Start any time, but wait a few minutes after eating or brushing teeth before use. Then, put a few drops under your tongue, and a few on it. About 6-8 drops
total. Try not to swallow for two minutes and then just forget about it. Repeat this process after about four hours. We suggest you use it a few minutes before
you would normally smoke your first cigarette of the day, and then just before lunch and just before dinner. If you need one or two drops at other times,
feel free.
How fast does Rid-tobak work?
Very, very fast. Within minutes after taking it in your mouth, it will make tobacco less interesting to you. As long as you continue to use Rid-tobak a few times
a day, you will progressively lose your interest for cigarettes or chewing. You must stick with it optimistically, of course. Other encouragement and the use of
a cigarette substitute may help some people, but FAITHFULL use of Rid-tobak throughout each day until the supply is used up will work -- just don't give up!
Is there anything toxic in Rid-tobak?
NO. You need not worry if it is accidently consumed. It also contains no artificial sweeteners or colors.
Is Rid-tobak safe for diabetics?
It is a food supplement product and has no side effects. However, as you know, tobacco addiction also impairs some endocrine functions. Tobacco
withdrawal might itself influence some changes in insulin level, so blood sugar should be monitored along with the process of de-addiction, and
contact a physician if you need to as you stop your tobacco use. Rid-tobak by itself will not cause an effect, according to the Indian .
In High Blood Pressure patients, what will Rid-tobak do?
As you know, tobacco is a vasoconstrictor (narrowing of blood vessels is an effect of tobacco use, and this increases blood pressure). Quitting tobacco
can actually result in a lowering of blood pressure and it is advised have a physician follow and perhaps readjust the dosage of medications, if he sees
a need to do so. We claim that Rid-tobak is safe but every individual case of High BP or Diabetes should be followed by a qualified doctor, especially
when changes in habits such as smoking are in progress.
Is Rid-tobak safe in Pregnancy?
Yes, according to its producers. It is a food product, not a drug. It is also used very sparingly. The tobacco addiction itself is unhealthy for the fetus and the
mother, and withdrawal before pregnancy would be even more advisable. Consult your doctor about quitting tobacco during pregnancy.
What chemicals are used in Rid-tobak?
None.
How much should I purchase?
For most people Three dropper bottle and 6 weeks 8 drops three times a days is enough. If you know yourself to be easily attracted back to tobacco
even after quitting, we suggest you keep a second bottle on hand for immediate reinforcement during later temptation. Each bottle is 15ml .
Can Rid-tobak be used by young smokers?
Yes. It is not contraindicated at any age.
What is the success rate of Rid-tobak for people who have used it to leave off tobacco use?
Studies and trials in India by the developer and by hundreds of other doctors and de-addiction clinics and camps in India have reported success rates
between 84% and 100%. Around 20,000 subjects have used it without any reported side effects or sensitivities. Many of the trials have involved
supportive psychotherapy or other forms of encouragement... but for a motivated person, Rid-tobak may be the best and most cost-effective aid to
quitting tobacco ever offered to the public.
Is there alcohol in Rid-tobak?
No. It is not irritating or bitter, like some other oral products. This is Halal prepration.
Is Rid-tobak FDA approved?
No, Rid-tobak is sold as an herbal 'Anti-Tobacco Mouth Freshener' which Modifies your habit. It is consists of herbal food supplement ingredients, not drugs,
and is not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure any disease. It does not require FDA approval.
The fact that Rid-tobak also is helpful to persons who smoke and are trying to quit can be considered incidental, and although that is why it is so desirable,
tobacco use is not a medical condition or disease.
What is your guarantee?
Everyone who follows the directions for use faithfully experiences a marked reduction or elimination of tobacco use. As for starting smoking again, this
Depends on your resolve and the stresses in your life, which we can not control... however the action of Rid-tobak does work to change your subliminal
attitude towards tobacco, so you have a greater chance of staying away from it. As we can neither evaluate your personal situation nor control the way you
use the product or your motivation, we can not guarantee the level of your personal success -- although statistically it is very high. Please write to us
Detailing your experience.
Get Prepared and Set a Stop Smoking Date
To prepare to help you get rid from smoking, you will need to change your environment. You can start by getting rid of ALL signs of tobacco, cigarettes and ashtrays in your home. This includes doing the same for your car and your work place. Check your pockets and ensure that your are not carrying cigarettes.
Make sure that you ask people to get rid from smoking around you. Surround yourself more with non-smokers than people who smoke. This doesn't mean you give up socializing with your friends but being with people who do not smoke during the quit period will help you.
Take a look at any of your previous attempts to give up smoking and ask yourself the things that best worked for you and those that didn't. Its imperative that once you give up, you do not smoke AT ALL.
Questions to Think About
Think about the following questions before you try to stop smoking. You may want to talk about your answers with your health care provider.
Why do you want to stop? When you tried to quit last time, what helped and what didn't? What will be the most difficult situations for you after you stop smoking? How will you plan to handle those situations? Who can help you through the tough times; will it be your family, friends or health worker? What pleasures do you get from tobacco? What ways can you still get pleasure if you quit?
You will need to develop a positive attitude. Tell yourself that you are actually helping yourself by giving up instead of thinking that you are depriving yourself of a cigarette. Continuously tell yourself that you're ditching a dangerous habit that will result in a healthier and a better life.
Make a point to be proud of yourself as a non-smoker. It takes a lot of courage and will power to quit, and once you achieve it, it will certainly be something to boast about.
Prepare a list of the reasons why you have decided to quit and carry this list with you in the pocket where you would normally carry cigarettes. If you feel the urge to smoke then read the list to remind yourself of why you have decided to give up.
Don't ask yourself too many questions about how badly you want a cigarette. Ask yourself how would you feel if you reverted back to cigarettes as before. Cigarettes is an all or nothing proposition
Here are some questions to ask your health worker. How can you help me to quit? What should I do if I need further help? What is withdrawal like? How can I get information on withdrawal? Also be familiar with the side effects of the other regimen?
One of the key properties of Rid-tobak is that it does not have many withdrawal symptoms associated with it.
Rid-tobak is completely herbal so it does not have any side effects associated with it. This will help you to cope with the quitting process better than if you were to use products that have side effects or withdrawal symptoms associated with them.
Seek Further Help to Quit Smoking
Previous studies illustrate that you have a better chance to quit smoking if you seek encouragement and help from others.
Getting further help to quit smoking will mean some of the following:
- Make your family, friends, and work colleagues aware of the fact that you are planning to quit and you need their support and encouragement. Discourage them from smoking in your presence and ask them not to leave cigarettes or tobacco lying around where you can see them. Also ask them not to offer you cigarettes at any account, whether you're out socializing in the pub or at your usual smoking times at work.
- Ask your closer friends and family to call you to remind you that you have quit smoking.
- Book an appointment with your GP or talk to a quit smoking help line. An appointment with your doctor will be essential, as it will help you monitor the positive changes that will be noticed immediately after quitting smoking. For example, if you're Diabetic or suffer from blood pressure, you will need to consult your doctor to ensure that you are prescribed the correct medication dosage as your body experiences changes as a result of giving up.
- If you are pregnant or lactating then you will also need to seek your doctor's advice if you're quitting.
- Obtain counseling and advice from a local help group or call a help line. Taking advice and help will considerably increase your chances of succeeding.
- The more support you seek, the bigger the chances of you giving up. There are many help schemes available at your local health centers. Call your GP or your local health department and they should be able to advise on the availability of help schemes in your area.
- You motivation should be to stop at all cost regardless of the discomfort you may face. While some discomfort may be involved in giving up cigarettes, it is insignificant compared to the pain and suffering which continuing the habit can cause.
- Physical withdrawal from quitting will normally peak within three days, and totally subside within two weeks. Diseases such as emphysema, heart disease, other circulatory conditions and cancers involve months or even years of long term suffering. These pains are much more severe than anything encountered while quitting. The biggest difference, though, is that these diseases have the full potential of permanently crippling or killing their victims.
- Smokers are not only prone to have these major catastrophic illnesses. Due to the weakening of the body's defense mechanisms, smokers are more frequently plagued by infectious diseases, such as colds, flu, and pneumonias. While most of these infections rarely result in permanent crippling or death, they do result in great inconveniences and discomfort. Not only does the smoker have a greater risk of these diseases, but also when he does get one of them, it is more severe, and painful than it would have been if he didn't smoke. No non-smoker would consider inhaling dry hot smoke into an already burning irritated throat. But no matter how intense the pain, the smoker will else he suffers withdrawal besides the cold.Getting help and combining such help with Rid-tobak and your strong determination to give up cigarettes will ensure that you start a new healthy tobacco free life.
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Pick Up New Skills and Behaviors for Quitting Smoking
Find ways of distracting yourself from the urge to smoke, which will be there within two days of quitting smoking but the urge will gradually decrease over time. If the urge is very strong then take drops of Rid-tobak and if you really MUST, you can light up a cigarette, but you must ensure that your tobacco intake consistently reduces daily by at least 20% when you're using Rid-tobak. Rid-tobak will help you quit smoking by:
- Changing the taste of tobacco
- Stopping the kick from tobacco
- Reducing the craving for tobacco
- And controlling anxiety
Once you have started the quitting smoking programme, take up additional activities that will pull you away from smoking. Take up extra exercise, in accordance with your GP's advice or keep yourself occupied with activities to take you mind of smoking.
When you quit, add changes to your daily routine, such as traveling on a new route to work or drinking tea instead of coffee or having your meal at a different place. Be alert of the fact that your regular routines will trigger the urge for smoking. Typical situations that trigger an urge to smoke would be drinking tea or coffee, drinking alcohol, sitting in a bar or a pub socializing, being surrounded by friends who smoke or work colleagues and last but not least, after a meal.
Make a point to drink plenty of pure fruit Juices in the first few days. This will help you get rid of the nicotine in your body.
You will also need to drink plenty of water that will act as hydrotherapy and will help eliminate the anti-toxins against tobacco which are present in your body. It has been observed by Doctors that one of the actions of Rid-tobak is detoxification. Although this has not yet been proven scientifically, it has been observed that cravings for tobacco are reduced with the use of Rid-tobak immediately.
Do something to reduce your stress. Start taking more deep breaths slowly and evenly all the time to help reduce your stress.
Avoid stressful situations and if you do encounter such a situation then don't react if you don't have to, just observe your emotions at that time and try to be watchful and also remember that you have stopped forever. Remind yourself that a cigarette is not the solution. This will just complicate the situation while creating another crisis, a relapse into the nicotine addiction.
Make time to have a hot bath, light exercise, or do some reading. Plan various leisure activities every day.
Tell yourself that you're a "smoke-a-holic". Taking just one puff can easily undo all the hard work that you have put in to stop and you can be on cigarettes again as you always were with just one puff.
Consciously start saving the money that you would have spent on tobacco to regularly buy yourself something so that you get used to the habit of having the money there. Buy yourself something weekly or monthly, or treat yourself to a holiday after a few months.
Meet friends who don't smoke.
Prepare for Relapse or Difficult Situations to quit Smoking Cigarettes
Once you quit smoking cigarettes, most relapses will occur within the first three months after you quit smoking. Don't be too discouraged if you start smoking cigarettes again. It is not uncommon for people to try to quit smoking cigarettes a few times before they finally quit.
Below are some difficult situations you may encounter:
Weight Gain. It is common for people to experience some weight gain when they stop smoking, which is typically less than 10 pounds. You will need to eat a healthy diet and stay active. Don't allow weight gain distract you from your main aim of stopping smoking. You can control your weight by eating healthy. Eat a sufficient amount of fruit and vegetables and avoid going near sweets and chocolates. Celery and carrots are good short-term substitutes for cigarettes.
Complement your healthy eating with a moderate amount of exercise, suitable for your physical state.
Alcohol. Avoid drinking alcohol. Drinking alcohol will decrease your chances to help you quit smoking cigarettes.
Other Smokers. Mixing with smokers will tempt you to smoke.
Bad Mood or Depression. Dealing with emotional loss has similarities to dealing with anger in regards to quitting and its aftermath. When smokers encounters a person or a situation that angers them, they initially feel the frustration of the moment, making them - depending on the severity of the situation - churn inside. This effect in non-smokers or even ex-smokers is annoying to say the least. The only thing that resolves the internal conflict for a person not in the midst of an active addiction is resolution of the situation or, in the case of a situation which doesn't lend itself to a quick resolution, time to assimilate the frustration and in a sense move on. An active smoker though, facing the exact same stress has an additional complication which even though they don't recognize it, this complication creates significant implications to their behavior and belief structures regarding the benefit of tobacco.
When a person encounters stress, it drops the brain's supply of nicotine, throwing the smoker into drug withdrawal. This leads to the smoker with added anxiety, not just from the initial stress, but also from the effects of withdrawal.
Even if the stress is resolved, the smoker generally does not still feel good. The withdrawal isn't eased by the conflict resolution, but only by re-administration of nicotine, or, riding out the withdrawal for 72 hours.
There are many ways in which you can improve your mood other than by consuming nicotine. Rid-tobak actually helps in reducing anxiety to make the quitting process easier.
Discuss any such problems with your GP to get further support.
Special Situations or Conditions. Studies have shown that everyone can. Your situation or condition can give you a special reason to stop.
- Pregnant women/new mothers. By stopping, you protect your baby's health and your own.
- Parents of young children. By giving up, you protect your children from illnesses caused by passive smoke.
- Hospitalized patients. By giving up you reduce health problems and assist healing.
- Heart attack patients. By quitting, you reduce your risk of a second heart attack.
- Lung, head, and neck cancer patients. By quitting, you reduce your chance of a second cancer.