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The blend of herbs can be customized by combining ingredients such as lobelia and calming herbs, incorporating expectorants and mullein to support the lungs, and eventually transitioning to using mullein only (Brounstein, 1995)

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The relevant question is not is this safer than smoking? but am I using this in a way that is genuinely sustainable for my health? What concerns me most is the stationary use habit

Programs that address the psychological roots of smoking before the quit day may reduce the subjective severity of withdrawal

But, more importantly, he also found a transformation effect the cigars had on him and his different roles